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Activity 4: Going Separate Ways

The document describes a classroom activity about divergent boundaries. Students are asked to analyze photographs of rift valleys and oceanic ridges to understand how plates separate at divergent boundaries. Over millions of years, the distance between separating land masses will increase greatly and an ocean basin will form as new crust is created at the spreading center between the plates.

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Activity 4: Going Separate Ways

The document describes a classroom activity about divergent boundaries. Students are asked to analyze photographs of rift valleys and oceanic ridges to understand how plates separate at divergent boundaries. Over millions of years, the distance between separating land masses will increase greatly and an ocean basin will form as new crust is created at the spreading center between the plates.

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ACTIVITY 4:

GOING SEPARATE
WAYS

OBJECTIVES:
Explain the processes that occur
along divergent boundaries
Determine the results of plates
that are moving apart

MATERIALS

Photographs of Rift Valleys and


Oceanic Ridges

PROCEDURE

Analyze the photographs of the


rift valleys and oceanic ridges
below, and answer the questions
that follow.

RIFT VALLEY

RIFT VALLEY

RIFT VALLEY

LAKE MALAWI EAST AFRICAN RIFT


VALLEY

MID-OCEANIC RIDGE

MID-OCEANIC RIDGES

GUIDE QUESTIONS
What are common in the
pictures?
All pictures show a fissure or a
crack between two land masses.

GUIDE QUESTION
What do you think is happening
in the Earths crust in those
pictures?
The land masses are moving
away from each other.

GUIDE QUESTIONS
If the event continues for
millions of years, what do you
think will be the effect on the
crust?
The distance between the land
masses will be far greater than
what is shown in the picture.

GUIDE QUESTION

Complete the drawing below to illustrate


your answer in number 3.
Your illustration should show a wider crack or
fissure between two land masses

FORMATION OF AN OCEAN
BASIN

FORMATION OF AN OCEAN
BASIN

FORMATION OF AN OCEAN
BASIN

FORMATION OF AN OCEAN
BASIN

FORMATION OF AN OCEAN
BASIN

FORMATION OF AN OCEAN
BASIN

FORMATION OF AN OCEAN
BASIN

FORMATION OF AN OCEAN
BASIN

KEY CONCEPT

Divergent boundaries occur


along spreading centers where
plates are moving apart and new
crust is created by magma
pushing up the mantle

KEY CONCEPT
Effects that are found at a divergent
boundary between oceanic plates include:
1.
a submarine mountain range such as the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
2. Volcanic activity in the form of fissure
eruptions
3. Shallow earthquake activity
4. Creation of new sea floor
5. Widening of ocean basin

KEY CONCEPT
If a divergent boundary is between
continental plates, the effects are:
1. Rift valley formation which will soon
develop into linear sea
2. Shallow earthquake activities
3. Numerous normal faults

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