Shaking Our World

Lithosphere- Model

Faults

Summary:

When the rocks is moving, it will cause fault. There are three types of faults that happen in different movement. Normal fault is when the hang wall move down and respect the foot wall. Reverse fault is when hang wall move up and respect the foot wall. The strike slip fault is different from the normal and the reverse faults because the hang wall and foot wall move sidling past each other.

Asthenosphere- Demonstration Lab

Convection Current

Summary:

Convenction Currents is happen during the mantle. When the gas moving on the mantle the temperture will become very high and going up to the crust, After the gas is on top of the mantle it will start getting cold and returning to the bottom of the mantle. This is happening all the times and cause the plates tectonic. Plate tectonic is the plates move round the earth very slowly every year.

Mantle- Narrative Video

Earthquakes

Summary:

Earthquake happen when the crust moving becasue of the mantle. The mantle is under the crust so the plate will silding apart with other plates. The scientist use seimograph to measure the level of the earthquake. There are three types of earthquakes P waves, S waves and L waves. When the earthquake happen the place that cause earthquake is call the focus and the center of the earthquake is called the epicenter. Each time when earthquake happen the scientist use the maguitude to measure amount of the earthquakes. Sometimes if earthquake happen under the ocean it can ceate a tsunami.

Critical Question

      I agree with the theory of plate tectonics, becasue there are many evidence that support this theory. Long time ago there are a huge land called the pangaea, by the time moving the pangaea started separate to different lands. Sometimes, when the plates moving it will casue earthquake and faults.

     Alfred Wegener, he is the person who thought plate tectonic. He use the fossil rock record and mountain ranges to support the plate tectonics.

Reflection:

Do you agree with the theory of plate tectonics? Why or why not?

1. What did you enjoy most about this project and why?

The reason that I enjoy the most about this project is becausewe can choice the activties we want, so that all the classsmates' project is unqiue and different.

2. What was most challenging for you during this projectand why?

The most differcult part during this project is we have to write many different summary about each topic, after that we have to get a quiz by Ms. Kiara to prove that we understand all the topic that we do.

3. What new skills do you learn from doing this project?

From this project, I learn about how to use the garageband to record the voice and make change from the garageband.

4. Is there anything that you could have done to improve any of your work? Explain.

In this project, the summary that I wrote on some topic is not very good, I think I can write more detail and explain more specificly. I hope I can improve this during my next project.