Monday, January 23, 2012

*EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES:

• Go to MJC Climate and Oceans talk this Friday. Take 1 page of notes.  30 points
• MJC Science Talks Link
• Bring 3x5 cards.  5 pts per 100 cards.  you may bring up to 500 cards.
• Ch. 9 book extra credit - see the unit title page for details.

AGENDA:

• Stamp/go over homework
• Finish Plate Tect. Notes if needed
• World Plate Boundaries Map
• Divergent Boundaries Notes
• Seafloor spreading paragraphs

VOCAB (capitalized words are todays new vocab words):

• continental drift, Pangaea, supercontinent, asthenosphere, plate tectonics, lithospheric plate, oceanic lithosphere, continental lithosphere
• DIVERGENT BOUNDARY, OCEANIC (MID-OCEAN) RIDGE, RIFT VALLEY, SEAFLOOR SPREADING

HOMEWORK:

1. Due Tuesday: Seafloor spreading paragraphs
2. Due Tuesday: world plate boundaries map - colored

STUDY CARDS TOPICS: here are some ideas to help you make your study cards

• Earth's structure and composition, how seismic waves show the earth's structure, Continental Drift Hypothesis, evidence for continental drift, the Theory of Plate Tectonics, lithospheric plates, plate boundaries, convection, models of mantle convection, divergent boundaries, features found at divergent boundaries, seafloor spreading