1. Describe the different types of boundaries

2. Identify and explain which boundaries are likely to produce volcanoes.

3. Identify and explain which boundaries are likely to produce earthquakes.

4. Explain how plate tectonics is part of the rock cycle

earthquake seismometer

seismograph epicenter

magnitude Richter scale

focus seismic wave

fault

Vocabulary - Objective 4

GOAL: You should be able to explain how

earthquakes are formed, detected, and

measured.

How earthquakes formhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zNyVPsj8zc (end at 1:30)

Seismic waves

P-Waves (primary wave)

S-Waves (secondary wave)

How to detect and measure epicenter

http://www.usarray.org/public/about/how

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nS10xNBfVE&feature=related (how detected and measured)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx4OqT0PYnU use this)

Earthquake Magnitude

How much stronger is each level compared to the previous level?

developed in 1935 by Charles F. Richter of the California Institute of Technology

Seismic Waves & Earth’s interior9.5

What patterns do you notice?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfVNnk8FHcU (more on plate tectonics)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4126809.stm (natural disasters)

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/environment-news/japan-tsunami-2011-vin/ (japan Tsunami) 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7533972.stm (how tsunamis form)

Resources & tsunami info