Let’s Mark the Boundaries

Plate Tectonics, Earthquake

Distribution, Active Volcanoes and

Mountain Ranges

World Plates and World Map

Objectives:

Describe the distribution of active

volcanoes, earthquake epicenters and

major mountain belts.

Determine the scientific basis for

dividing the Lithospheric Plates.

1 whole:

Copy and Answer Q5-Q14

Trace the earthquake

distribution around the

world and the approximate

locations of several

volcanoes in two separate

plastic sheets.

Q and A

Q5-Q14

Plate

Boundaries

Active

Volcanoes

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Remember:

Places on earth where most of the

earthquakes originated or some

mountains and volcanoes were

formed mark the boundaries of each

lithospheric plate.

Each plate is slowly moving relative to

each other, causing geologic events

to happen along their boundaries.

Remember:

Plates are large pieces of the upper

few hundred kilometers of Earth that

move as a single unit as it floats

above the mantle.

As plates interact along their margins,

important geological processes take

place,

such as the formation of mountain belts,

earthquakes, and volcanoes.

Active Volcanoes

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Type of Boundaries

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Bring: (by grp)

Clay (atleast 3 colors)