Mrs. Scheffer's Plate Tectonics Webquest
Process: You will answer the following questions using the related links:
1. What is Pangaea?
2. What scientist first described Pangaea and what was his evidence?
3. Why do the plates move in the first place?
4. What are the three boundary types?
5. Give an example of a spot in the world where you can find each of the three types of boundaries. (give 1 example for each boundary type)
6. What are the three possible tectonic plate combinations at convergent boundaries?
7. What happens at a subduction zone?
8. At divergent boundaries plates move apart causing what 2 things to happen?
9. If the rocks 100 miles west of the mid ocean ridge are 10,000 years old, how old can you expect the rocks to be 100 miles east of the same ridge? Just think about it...
10. The San Andreas Fault is one of the best studied transform boundaries, between what two plates is it located?
11. Even though plate boundaries produce devastating natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, what benefits do they have?
12. What is the Ring of Fire? What plates make up the Ring of Fire? .
1. What is Pangaea?
2. What scientist first described Pangaea and what was his evidence?
3. Why do the plates move in the first place?
4. What are the three boundary types?
5. Give an example of a spot in the world where you can find each of the three types of boundaries. (give 1 example for each boundary type)
6. What are the three possible tectonic plate combinations at convergent boundaries?
7. What happens at a subduction zone?
8. At divergent boundaries plates move apart causing what 2 things to happen?
9. If the rocks 100 miles west of the mid ocean ridge are 10,000 years old, how old can you expect the rocks to be 100 miles east of the same ridge? Just think about it...
10. The San Andreas Fault is one of the best studied transform boundaries, between what two plates is it located?
11. Even though plate boundaries produce devastating natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, what benefits do they have?
12. What is the Ring of Fire? What plates make up the Ring of Fire? .