QUIZ, UNIT D, ACT 36-42
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Activity
36: Storing Nuclear Waste
37: Volcanic Landforms
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38: Beneath the Earth’s
Surface
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39: Earth Time
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40: The Continental Puzzle
41: Continental Drift
42: The Theory of Plate
Tectonics
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Topics/Concepts
Pros/Cons of storing nuclear waste underground
What is nuclear waste?
How are people protected from it?
Where is it stored now?
Notes from reading
What is a volcano?
Different types of volcanic eruptions
Difference in igneous rock formations
3Vs of eruptions – how they effect the type of
eruption
Viscosity, volatility, volume, silica
Demonstrations of viscosity with liquids
Lava vs. magma
Different types of volcanoes and their
characteristics
Shield, cinder cone, composite
Layers of the Earth and their characteristics
(depth, consistency), including lithosphere and
asthenosphere
Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
How geological time is organized
Be able to read geological timeline
Major events in Earth’s history
Paleontologist
Evidence from fossils, mountain ranges, rocks,
climate
Background Information!
How Earth’s surface has changed over time
Wegener, his ideas, and why he wasn’t believed
Evidence that supports continental drift
Background Information!
What is the theory?
Tectonic plates