Web+Quest


 * Earthquakes, Plate Tectonics, and Volcano's Webquest**

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__Ponaganset High School students will be reflective learners, critical thinkers, problem solvers, independent researchers, and effective communicators. Our students are encouraged to live a healthy lifestyle and to respect the dignity and rights of others so they can succeed at life, work, post-secondary pursuits and citizenship.

Imagine experiencing an earthquake – what would that be like? Would objects fly off of shelves? Would windows break? Would it be strong enough to collapse highways? Read the first two pages of Remembering Loma Prieta at Faultline.__ [|Http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/great/loma1.html]


 * 1) __Do you think these people prepared for this earthquake? Explain your response. Is it possible to prepare for an earthquake.__

__Read through this website to answer the following questions:

2. Describe in a paragraph what caused the great quake in California, using the following guiding questions to formulate your answer:__
 * __What is the San Andreas fault?__


 * __How did the plates cause the earthquake?__


 * __Can you think of other examples where there is a strain between two things that results in a violent release?__

__At Earthforce's website, have students read the first article, Earthforces in the Core.__ [|Http://sln.fi.edu/earth/core.html]

__After reading the article, draw a diagram of the layers of earth:__


 * __a. Your diagrams should look something like the diagram at [|Earth's Interior.] Label inner core, outer core,mantle, lithosphere, and crust, which is the upper part of the lithosphere.__
 * __b. Include in your diagram, what these layers are made of and label the components of each layer on your diagram.__

__3. When the diagrams are finished, answer the following questions:__


 * __Which layer are the plates in?__


 * __Which layer do the plates “float” or move on?__


 * __How do you think the moving plates affect the layer of earth above them?__

__4. Describe how the Himalayan Mountains formed? Go to__ [] __to find out. View the animation of the Asian and Indian plates. Describe their movement in mountain formation. Describe what has happened over the last 60 million years.

5.How tall is Mt. Everest? Has it always been the same height? If not, is it still growing? At what rate is it growing?

6. Do you think earthquakes occur in the Himalayan's? Why or why not?

7. Where else do quakes occur?

View the map at__ []__. This map shows the quakes that have occurred in the last 7 days. Any nearby? Find some earthquakes in the last week in the U.S. Is there a pattern? Explain the pattern.

7b. What is Magnitude and how is it measured? ( hint: look under measurements)

8. Go to__ []__. To learn about faults. a. Define what a fault in the Earth is:

b. Name the famous fault in California. What kind of fault is this?

9. What are the three basic types of faults in the earth's crust? Diagram each to the right Type and brief description Diagram:

a.

b.

c.

10. Plate boundaries also come in different forms. What are these three types: go to this website to see a map and identify the different types of plates boundaries: Give examples of a least 3__ __http://www.platetectonics.com/book/page_5.asp__

11. How do plate boundaries relate to faults?

12. Go to this website : [] and explore the interactive materials to answer the following questions :

13. Discuss the similarities or differences between earthquakes and volcanoes.
 * How are the plate movements different or the same?


 * How are the processes of the two different or the same?


 * How are the outcomes on the surface different?


 * What is a hotspot and where do they occur?