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Activity 2 Let's Mark The Boundaries

The document provides instructions for an activity to have students mark the boundaries of tectonic plates by tracing the locations of volcanoes, earthquake epicenters, and major mountain ranges on plastic sheets. After overlaying the sheets, students are asked questions about the relationships between these features and how they provide the scientific basis for dividing the lithosphere into tectonic plates.

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Activity 2 Let's Mark The Boundaries

The document provides instructions for an activity to have students mark the boundaries of tectonic plates by tracing the locations of volcanoes, earthquake epicenters, and major mountain ranges on plastic sheets. After overlaying the sheets, students are asked questions about the relationships between these features and how they provide the scientific basis for dividing the lithosphere into tectonic plates.

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Activity 2

Let’s Mark the Boundaries

Objectives:
• Describe the distribution of active volcanoes, earthquake epicenters, and major mountain belts.
• Determine the scientific basis for dividing the Lithospheric plates.

Materials:
•Figure 5: Map of earthquake distribution
•Figure 6: Map of active volcanoes of the world
•Figure 7: Mountain ranges of the world
•2 pieces plastic sheet used for book cover, same size as a book page
•marking pens (two different colors)

1. Study Figure 5 showing the earthquake distribution around the world. Trace the approximate locations of several earthquake “clusters” using a
marking pen on one of the plastic sheets.

Q5. How are earthquakes distributed on the map?

Q6. Where are they located?

Q7. Where are there no earthquakes?

Q8. Why is it important for us to identify areas which are prone to

earthquakes?

2. Study the map of active volcanoes in Figure 6.


Q9. How are volcanoes distributed? Q10. Where are they located?

Q11. Based on the map, mention a country that is unlikely to experience a

volcanic eruption

3. On the second plastic sheet, sketch the approximate locations of several volcanoes using a marking pen.
4. Place the earthquake plastic sheet over the volcano plastic sheet.

Q12. Compare the location of majority of earthquake epicenters with the location of volcanoes around the world.

5. Study Figure 7, the orange portions indicate mountain ranges of the world.

Q13. How will you relate the distribution of mountain ranges with the
distribution of earthquake epicenters and volcanoes?

6. Now that you have seen the location of volcanoes, mountain ranges,
and majority of earthquake epicenters, study Figure 2 on page 7, Map of
Plate boundaries once more.

Q14. What do you think is the basis of scientists in dividing Earth’s


lithosphere into several plates?

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