Earth's Interior Quiz Review

There will be a small quiz in Science on Monday. The main topics are:

• Layers of the Earth
• Rare Earth Elements
• Plate Tectonics
• Types of Plate Boundaries

In class today your groups came up with most of the questions for the quiz. I will also add a few of my own into the mix. Below is a photo of the questions your groups came up with today. Third period questions are on the left Fourth period questions are on the right. Click on the image to make it bigger and hold down 'Ctrl' and '+' to zoom in.

Gizmo: Plate Tectonics Homework

Please do the Gizmo on www.explorelearning.com

The "Gizmo- Plate Tectonics" sheet with the questions numbered 1-16 is due on Friday. So if you did not finish it in class today make sure you work on for homework and turn it in on Friday.

The 5 questions below the Gizmo are due on Monday. When you complete them online click "Check my Answers" then I will get notified of how you did.

Types of Plate Tectonic Boundaries

Here are some videos that I think help explain the different types of Tectonic Plate Boundaries:

In this video the narrator uses slightly different terms than what we learned in class. Here is how you translate them: Constructive = Divergent, Destructive = Convergent, Conservative = Transform.

This video has some pretty loud music so I would recommend you to mute it.

This video shows some good examples of places of where boundaries occur.

Modelling Convection Currents

Here are some photos from the activity in class today. If you didn't turn in your assignment in class today, make sure you finish it up and turn it in on Monday.

Plate Tectonics

Here is a good resource for learning more about Plate Tectonics


http://www.livescience.com/37706-what-is-plate-tectonics.html

Rare Earth Elements Research

The homework asks you to research prices of various elements and commodities that we use in our lives. The easiest way to do this is to do an internet search such as "Aluminum Price Per Ton" for example.

Here are some links you can use to help you:

http://www.vincentmetals.com/1Pricing/Price_Data/

http://ycharts.com/indicators/iron_ore_spot_price_any_origin

http://www.cnbc.com/commodities/