Plate Boundary Activities

Click on the code below for Legends of Learning. The teacher code is Lawsb



Click on the links below for different plate tectonic interactive activities.


Plate Boundary Animations:
https://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/slip.html

Interactives: Dynamic Earth Plates and Boundaries
https://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/tectonicsmap/

USGS’s online publication: This Dynamic Earth
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html

NASA’s On the Move: Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/pangaea/index.html

UCMP’s Geology: Plate Tectonics
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html

PSA Audio File

Click on the headphones to listen to a reading of the test.

Satellite Images andTopographic Map practice

Start with Google Earth Engine Timelapse.  Click on the link below to use for your notes. 



Afterwards if you have time...


Use the following activities to practice finding elevations on topographic maps.

1. Contour Map Practice: Complete activities 1-4 on this website
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/contour_quiz_menu.html

2. Select parts of a topographic map
https://www.ixl.com/science/grade-8/select-parts-of-a-topographic-map

3. Explore the topography of the United States
https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/advanced-viewer/

Plate Tectonics Test

Click on the picture to take the mid-unit test.

Use your class's code.

Your Student ID is your lunch number