Physiographic Project:
Physiographic Chart: A map showing Earth's landforms.
Directions:
1. Across the bottom of your physiographic chart, make a legend/key for your map. Use the following color and symbol combinations below:
2. Obtain a "Earth's Surface Structure" map. Share this map with a partner as there are not enough for each student. Use the map to complete step 3.
3. On your own physiographic chart (you may work with a partner, but each of you have to complete your own chart), make a continuous outline of the entire pacific plate with appropriate colors (red, blue, or black) to match the kind of boundary to. Where you are not sure of the type of boundary, make your lines dotted, but be sure to properly enclose the plate. Be sure to draw a transform fault line for the San Andreas Fault in properly in California. Label the plate and move on to the other plates below, checking them off as you go:
4. Write the following questions on the back of your physiographic chart and write your responses:
See pictures below to review the different types of plate boundaries (divergent, convergent, and transform).
Physiographic Chart: A map showing Earth's landforms.
Directions:
1. Across the bottom of your physiographic chart, make a legend/key for your map. Use the following color and symbol combinations below:
- Mid-Ocean Ridge (aka Sea Floor Spreading) - Red Line
- Collision and Subduction - Blue Line
- Transform Faulting - Black Line
- Accretion - Green Triangles
- Hot Spots - Yellow Dots
2. Obtain a "Earth's Surface Structure" map. Share this map with a partner as there are not enough for each student. Use the map to complete step 3.
3. On your own physiographic chart (you may work with a partner, but each of you have to complete your own chart), make a continuous outline of the entire pacific plate with appropriate colors (red, blue, or black) to match the kind of boundary to. Where you are not sure of the type of boundary, make your lines dotted, but be sure to properly enclose the plate. Be sure to draw a transform fault line for the San Andreas Fault in properly in California. Label the plate and move on to the other plates below, checking them off as you go:
- African
- Antarctic
- Arabian
- Australian
- Caribbean
- Indian
- Juan de Fuca
- Nazca
- North American
- Phillipine
- Scotia
- Somali
- South American
4. Write the following questions on the back of your physiographic chart and write your responses:
- Name the narrow sea growing between two of the plates?
- Name the two plates surrounding the narrow sea in the first question.
- List the geological activities and features that accompany faulting.
- List the geological activities and features that accompany spreading.
- List the geological activities and features that accompany collision.
- What geological features do you find next to all island arcs? Explain the reason.
See pictures below to review the different types of plate boundaries (divergent, convergent, and transform).