Earthquake Model

For homework tonight, find a shoebox to use during our earthquake simulation.   We will be using these on Thursday to model an earthquake and test your building design.

Earthquake Destruction

View this blendspace on Earthquake Destruction to learn about various effects of earthquakes such as tsunami, liquefaction, landslide, building shake, and fire.

In class we will be working on our Adopt-an-Earthquake project.  For homework, you can view this blendspace over the next 2 days.  Viewing should be done by Wednesday.

Earthquake: Destruction

Adopt an Earthquake

Greetings seismic historians!  Use this project description, along with what you have been learning about earthquakes to prepare for a presentation on a significant earthquake somewhere around the world.

Adopt an Earthquake

Earthquakes: Relationship to Faults

Visit this blendspace to watch 6 videos on Earthquakes.  This collection of videos highlight the connection of earthquakes to plate tectonics and fault lines.  You will be prompted on each slide to comment on something you learned while watching the video.

Earthquakes: Relationship to Faults

Plate Boundary Drawing: Due Monday

Use your class notes on plate boundaries to complete a poster of all plate boundaries including landforms and processes.

Please define the following terms on your poster:

Convergent boundary/ uplift
Convergent boundary/ subduction zone
Divergent boundary
Transform boundary
Ridge push
Slab pull
Convection currents
Sea-floor spreading
Deep ocean trench
Mid-ocean ridge
Mountains

** Due Monday

Plate Boundary Presentations

Click on the link below that corresponds to your plate group.  This document is your visual for the presentation you will give to the class regarding plate boundaries.  If you want to change the presentation at all, have 1 person in your group make a copy to edit.

Australian Plate
African Plate
North American Plate
Pacific Plate

Here are the requirements for the group presentation.  Your group must:

1. Provide a key for classmates to complete a world map highlighting convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries.    (use: red for divergent, blue for convergent, and green for transform)
2. Provide evidence from the maps to support your boundary choice.  What observations from each map (seismology, volcanology, geography, geochronology)  shows why the boundary you chose is correct.
3. Describe the motion at that boundary and connect what the data is showing with the type you chose. Why does your data support your choice of boundary type?

Plate Motion Diagram

Click on the link below, make a copy in your name, and complete the task described on the document.

Plate Motion Diagram