PLATE TECTONICS UNIT RESOURCES

LAYER C1 - helpful links:

* Click below to read & see pictures about the CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY.

• WEBSITE 1 - lots of good info about evidence for Continental Drift Theory.
• WEBSITE 2 - more of the above plus info about layers of the earth.
• WEBSITE 3 - A great animation & lesson on the break up of Pangaea.
• WEBSITE 4 - A wonderful lesson about Continental Drift Theory.
• WEBSITE 5 - An animation that shows how the plates might move in the future.
  

C1 - QUIZ
** After completing the c1 layer: Click on the link below to take a short quiz.
PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A PIECE OF PAPER & take it to your teacher so she can check your yellow sheet.

C1 QUIZ



LAYER CII - USEFUL LINKS

CII-f: Click HERE for instructions for Mountain Movers lab.
or Click HERE to go straight to the Mountain Movers Lab

Geology Dictionary
or look for the vocabulary link at the top of the blog for lots more dictionary sites.

C2 - QUIZ
** After completing the c2 layer: Click on the link below to take a short quiz.
PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A PIECE OF PAPER & take it to your teacher so she can check your yellow sheet.

CII QUIZ



LAYER B - USEFUL LINKS:


B Layer - QUIZ
** After completing the B layer: Click on the link below to take a short quiz.
PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A PIECE OF PAPER & take it to your teacher so she can check your yellow sheet.

B LAYER QUIZ


LAYER A - USEFUL LINKS:

B-a: Google Earth Tour: Click HERE for a video tutorial on how to create a Google Tour using Google Earth.
Requirements: Find 10 landforms on the earth that were created at plate boundaries.

• a computer with Google Earth downloaded.
• internet connection
• a video player for the tutorial
• a way to save the .kmz tour file & either email it or bring it to me from home on flash drive.

Review Materials:

• Click HERE to make sure you understand the plate tectonics theory.
• Click HERE for an interactive lesson on plate tectonics theory.
• Click HERE for another great interactive lesson on plate tectonics.

Vocabulary Review - Do you know all the words?

• Click HERE for review games / flashcards.
• Click HERE for more vocabulary review games.
• Click HERE for more flashcards.

Animations:

• Click HERE for animations of landforms created by plate boundaries.
• Click HERE for an animation of convection currents in the mantle.

Blood Splatter Animations

Click here to view tutorials & animations about the forensics of blood splatters.

Weather Test Review

Click here to play some vocabulary review games.

Warm & Cold Fronts

Use your handout & the links below to complete the Venn diagram comparing warm fronts & cold fronts.

Click the links below to learn more about each topic:
Air Masses
Cold Fronts
Warm Fronts
Animations of Cold & Warm Fronts
Satellite Images of Air Masses

Air Pressure

Click HERE to view the air pressure animation.

In your notebook, please use complete sentences to answer the following questions about how the air pressure changes as a storm passed through Palm Beach, Florida.

1. When the pressure graph is at the lowest point where is the storm in relation to Palm Beach?

2. Where is the storm when the pressure is at its highest in Palm Beach?

3. When the pressure begins to rise up again where is the storm located (in relation to Palm Beach)?

4. Based on the image and your understanding of air pressure, what kind of weather should Palm Beach, Fl experience for the next 24 hours?

5. What relationship is there between air pressure and type of weather you might be experiencing?

Exam Review

Electromagnetic Spectrum:

Website 1 shows the wavelengths of visible light.

Website 2 has a table of visible light wavelengths.

Website 3 has NASA's great site for electromagnetic waves.

Website 4 is a spectroscope extention activty for preAP students.

Greenhouse Effect:

Website 1 is a tutorial for greenhouse effect.

Website 2 is a great animation showing the greenhouse effect.

Experimental Design:

See the previous posts below for help with identifying variables in an experiment.

Science Equipment:

Website 1 is an equipment online quiz.

Safety:

Website 1 is a list of safety guidelines. These are also found in your notebook.

Radiation from the Sun

Click here to view an animation of earth's surface temperature over 1 year. Watch it several times slowly.

On your small paper write 3 sentences that describes what happens to earth's temperature over the 1-year period.

Monster Storms

Click here to login to the Jason Project website.

Your user id & password should be your lunch code.

Once you login go to the left side of page & click on "Monster Storms."
On the next page click "Mission 1."
On the next page click "Defining a Storm."
Read this section & fill in the blanks on your notes.
When you have completed the reading you must choose 5 of the underlined words. On the left side of your notebook create a drawing for each word. Label your drawings.

You may use the internet for ideas, but images are usually blocked.

Have Mrs. Miles stamp your paper when your drawings are completed.

Getting off to a great start!

The 3rd week of school is about to start. Things are going great so far. Make sure you are checking your grades on Skyward (progress reports go out next week) and looking at the daily assignments calendar (tab at the top of the page).

Field Trip: October 1st.
JJ Pickle Research Facilty
Earth Science Career Fair

2010-2011 School Year

Back to School Night is Thursday, August 19th 5:00-7:00 p.m.

School Starts Monday, August 23rd.

Analyzing Cemetery Data

Problem: What are the main causes of death over the last 200 years.

1. Click here to open the excel document with all of the cemetery data from BASTROP, ELGIN & AUSTIN.

2. Your table group will be given a range of dates.

3. You must find the year(s) with the largest number of deaths in your range.

4. Once you have found that year you must research the following things to find correlations between deaths and war/disease/disaster.

5. 1 person research Texas wars
1 person research diseases in Texas
1 person research any natural disasters that might have occurred near Bastrop (floods, fires)
1 person research man-made disaster that might have occurred (explosions, car wrecks, etc)

6. Each person must write a one paragraph conclusion that answers the problem question above.
Your paragraph must have at least 6 complete sentences. Your paragraph must include the following stem: I conclude that the deaths in the year ____ were caused by _____.

7. Turn paper into the class box.

Cemetery Graph

Click here to open a PDF document containing all of the State Cemetery Data.

You will work with a partner to create a graph of all the deaths for a certain range of years.

1. Turn your graph paper sideways (landscape).

2. USE A PENCIL

3. Title the graph Texas State Cemetery Deaths

4. Label the x-axis Years

5. Label the y-axis Number of Deaths

6. Create a BAR GRAPH

7. Use colored pencils / markers to color your graph.

8. Put all names at the top of the graph.

9. Tape your graph to the colored paper.

Epidemic Research

If you have finished entering at LEAST 25 names from the cemetery you will now complete the following. (If you have not finished please use the last blog post to complete your data entry.)



1. Using a program like Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc and create the table below:

Texas Epidemics After 1800

Epidemics Description Years Deaths Regions Affected

2. Use Google to research Texas epidemics & fill out your table.


3. When you are done save your table in 2 places: Your desktop & Your student folder.

Cemetery Data Entry

Please click HERE to enter your cemetery data.

If you were absent & did not attend the field trip please click HERE to find data.

Geocaching Intro

Please put your earbuds in before watching the video below.
Click HERE when you are ready to explore GEOCACHING!!

To explore more websites about geocaching click below.
General Website 1
Texas Geocaching Website

Science TAKS Study Guide

Science 8 TAKS - Thursday, April 29th.

If you would like to see practice questions & review materials before April 29th here are some links that will be helpful.

Click here to download the pdf version of the Science TAKS study guide.

Click here to go to the TEA website to view all TAKS study guides for Texas.

Star Model Directions

Research the following info about your star:

Color
Temperature (K)
Distance from Earth in light years
Size (mass or radius)
Class (supergiant, etc)
Constellation your star is located
Brightness (magnitude)

Put the name in large lettering on both sides of plate.
Write the info above on front only
color both sides the color of your star
Cut the edges into a pointy star shape
Put your name on one side of star

Galaxy Notes

1. Click here to view Galaxy Notes Powerpoint.
2. Use your notes to make a foldable.
Crease black paper in hamburger fold. Cut 2 slits on front flap. Use a white pencil.
A. Put this following on front: 1. Title "Galaxies"
2. Name the 3 main types of galaxies (omit barred spiral)
B. Put this info inside: 1. Draw a picture of each of the 3 galaxies.
2. Write 3 characteristics of each galaxy.
C. Put this on back: 1. Name of our galaxy
2. Type of galaxy
3. size of our galaxy
4. your name

PreAP Atom Project

Click here to view the PDF verson of the PreAP Atom Model Project.
Click here to view the OneNote version of the Atom Model Project.

5th 6 Weeks - DUE Friday, MARCH 26th.

Fruitvale Vocabulary Practice

Click here to Practice the Fruitvale vocabulary with games!!

Fruitvale Vocabulary

Title Page 29 of your ISN (spiral) "Fruitvale Vocabulary"

List the following 8 words and then write their definition.

1. permeable

2. aquifer

3. aquitard

4. pollution

5. contaminate

6. toxic

7. pesticide

8. dilute

Use any of the dictionary websites listed on the left side of my blog to find the definition.

On Page 28: WRITE A COMPLETE SENTENCE OR DRAW A PICTURE for each word. You can do any combination that TOTALS 8. For example you could do 6 sentences and 2 pictures or 4 pictures and 4 definitions.

AP Ecology Project

Your new project is ready to go!! During class on Monday or Tuesday you will choose your topic from a hat. Good luck & get started ASAP. Remember - why do I want to buy your lamp?

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