GO150 Dynamic Earth Plate Tectonics Virtual Lab

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Purpose:  To enrich content knowledge of Earth’s structure and plate tectonics.

Part I: Complete this word document as you explore the Dynamic Earth Website. 

25 Points

Part II:  Take the online assessment and then place a screen of your score into the posted drop box.   15 points

Part I Directions:  25 Points

1.Go to the following website:

https://www.learner.org/wp-content/interactive/dynamicearth/index.html

2.Follow the directions on the screen and answer the following questions as you go. Pay attention and complete each activity. Type in your answers on the lab sheet. 

ANSWERS SHOULD BE IN A DIFFERENT FONT OR COLOR.

3.You will be taking a test at the end of the lab.

4.Turn in a screen shot of your quiz score in the provided drop box.

Questions:

1. Scientists have never drilled to the center of the Earth.  The interior of the Earth is based on the behavior of what?

Use the diagram of the Earth’s interior to answer the following:

2 Name the layer of the Earth made up of the  crust and a tiny bit of the upper mantle. It is divided into several constantly moving plates.

3.Name the hot, malleable semi‐liquid zone or layer on which the plates float or move. 

4.There is only one liquid layer.  Name this liquid layer.

5.Name the layer of the Earth that would be defined as the extremely hot, solid sphere of iron and nickel layer.

6.Name the hard and rigid layer, the Earth’s outermost and thinnest layer.

Go to the next chapter: Plate Tectonics

7.In the early 1900’s what was the name of the scientist that noticed the coastlines matched up?

8.What was the name he called the super landmass?

Pangaea

9.About 200 million years ago, what was the names given to the two major land masses?

10.The modern theory _____became widely accepted in the 1960’s and states that the Earth’s outer layer, or

11.  _________ is broken up into several large slabs known as

12. ____________

Go to the next chapter: Plates and Boundaries

13.The type of crust that lies under a continent is called?

14.The type of crust that lies under an ocean is called?

15.Which type of plate is older and thicker?

16.A boundary that is moving towards each other is known as?

 17.A boundary that is moving away from each other is known as?

18.A boundary that is sliding past each other is known as?

Click on the next chapter: Slip, Slide and Collide                                                       

 19. At some convergent boundaries, oceanic plate collides with a continental plate. Which plate is thinner and denser?

20. Transform boundaries grind past each other horizontally and results in a type of fault known as a __________ or strike-slip fault.  All faults are breaks in the rocks along which movement occurs. 

21.The best studied transform fault is the ‐_____________.

Click on Plate Interactions Challenge

22. Case Study #1 Africa:  Plates are (converging diverging transforming)

23. Case Study #2 New Zealand:  Plates are (converging diverging transforming)

24. Case Study #3 South America and Nazca:  Plates are (converging diverging transforming)

25 Four unscrambled words are: 

Part II Directions:   15 Points

1.Go to the following website:

https://www.learner.org/wp-content/interactive/dynamicearth/index.html

2. Take the assessment “TEST SKILLS” as many times as you would like. 

3. Take a screenshot of your score and place it into the provided drop box. 

Note:  Your grade on the assessment will be assigned based on your percentage score on the test of your skills from this site.  The assignment is worth 15 points.  For example, if your score is 100% then your will be given 15 points on the activity.  If your score is 50% then you will be given 50% of 15 or 7.5 as your grade for the assignment.