Homework Assignments for Unit 1

Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
By September 26 you should have read:
Text Pages 58 - 66; 74 - 75 Case Study
Handouts 1, 2, 3
By September 26, you should know the following:
Alfred Wegener
asthenosphere
basalt
continental crust
convergent boundary
core
crust
density
divergent boundary
earthquake
erosion
Fossil
geosphere
Gondwanaland
granite
hot spot
hydrothermal Vents
igneous rock
James Hutton
Laurasia
lava
lithosphere
magma
mantle
Mid-Ocean Ridge
oceanic crust
Pangaea
Sea Floor Spreading
seismic wave
tectonic plate
Theory of Continental Drift
Thoery of Plate Tectonics
transform boundary
tsunami
volcano
Homework Assignments

Block 1
Review of Far Flung Fossils – read packet.
Block 2
Finish FFF at home.
Quiz - Continental Drift
Block 3
Write five questions about the class notes today.
Block 4
Quiz Plate Tectonics.
Block 5
Section Review The Dynamic Earth. Assign questions 1–6 on page 66. Active Reading Worksheet for Section 1
Block 6
Study for Test