key question: what are ‘plates’ and how do they move?
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Key Question: What are ‘plates’ and how do they move?. Starter: Cut out and complete your plate tectonics jigsaw. Learning Objectives: To know the crust is divided into ‘plates’ To be able to explain how they move. Look carefully at your completed jigsaw. It shows the major plate boundaries. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Key Question:
What are ‘plates’ and how do they move?
Starter: Cut out and complete your plate tectonics jigsaw
Learning Objectives:
1. To know the crust is divided into ‘plates’
2. To be able to explain how they move
Look carefully at your completed jigsaw. It
shows the major plate boundaries.
Using a RED pencil make the plate
boundaries clearly
Top 10 deadliest volcanoes:
•Tambora, Indonesia•Krakatau, Indonesia•Pelee, Martinique•Ruiz, Columbia•Unzen, Japan•Laki, Iceland•Galunggung, Indonesia•Vesuvius, Italy•Etna, Italy
Top 10 biggest earthquakes:
1. Chile2. Prince William
Sound, Alaska3. Aleutian Islands4. Kamchatka5. Sumatra, Indonesia6. Ecuador7. Aleutian Islands8. Sumatra, Indonesia9. India/China border10.Kamchatka
Continental drift
Evidence to support Continental Drift:
Jigsaw fit of land masses Flightless Birds Fossils match
Rocks also match – the rocks in Scotland match those found in Newfoundland.
Why do the plates move?
Convention Currents
Mantle
Crust
Plenary
In pairs, using your jigsaw and knowledge learnt today, explain to your
partner how plates move.
2 Wish