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Date______ Period____ Group Assignment_____
Geology Map Observations
Each Person in your group needs to complete this assignment!
Part 1 (10 Points)
Get into the groups according to the number on your map.
Answer the questions about the map that was assigned to you.
1. What is your scientific specialty?(circle one)
Seismology
Volcanology
Geography
Geochronology
2. What information is your map telling you about the world?
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3. What do each of the colors on the map represent include units?
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4. Make 5 observations describe any patterns that your map shows. Use the world
map to help you describe where in the world you are writing about. EXTRA
CREDIT: Find more then 5 patterns
Example: There is a string of volcanoes to the west of Alaska.
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Part 2 (10 points)
1. Get in your letter group. You should have 4 different maps in your group now.
2. Each member of the group is going to share what he/she learned from their map in
Part 1. You should be speaking to your group, not copying the answers off their
paper. Teachers initials________
3. As you listen, write down what you learned and ask questions using the phrases
for discussion.
1. What patterns did you learn from the seismologist?
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2. What patterns did you learn from the volocanologist?
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3. What patterns did you learn from the geographer?
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4. What patterns did you learn from the Geochronologist?
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5. Find 3similarities in the patterns between all four maps? EXTRA CREDIT: Find more
similarities
Example: There are volcanoes, earthquakes and shallow water in Iceland.
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6. The world is broken into plates like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. From your observations
of the maps, draw what you think the puzzle pieces should look like on the world map
provided to you.
Part 3 Group Presentations (10 Points)
 Prepare your presentation.
Presentations must include
 All 3 similar patterns your group found. (Part 2, #5)
 How you found these patterns. (________ Maps had _______ in
common.)
 Your group’s proposed puzzle pieces (answer to #6) explaining why you
drew the boundaries where you did.
1. What similarities did the other groups find that where the same as yours?
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2. What similarities did the other groups find that where different from yours?
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3. Use the map on the following page to draw in the lines where you think the earth
is broken up into seven different pieces.