The document provides instructions for students to create annotated maps and diagrams showing the global distribution and relationships between earthquakes, volcanoes, fold mountains, and tectonic plates. It explains that earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains are located near plate boundaries as the result of plate tectonic movements. It describes the four main types of plate boundaries: destructive (where plates converge), constructive (where plates diverge and new crust forms), collision (where plates crash into each other), and conservative (where plates slide past each other).

1. What do these maps show?

4. Task Produce an annotated world map to show the location and distribution of earthquakes, volcanoes and fold mountains Use pages 8+9 from the Atlas You have 15 minutes

5. Structure You should be able to Describe the general distribution of fold mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes Explain how this distribution is related to movements at plate boundaries. Understand the processes leading to the formation of rift valleys and block mountains. Show a basic understanding of plate tectonics, describing the global pattern of plates, their structure, and be aware of plate movements - plates moving away from each other (sea floor spreading), plates moving towards each other (subduction) and plates sliding past each other.

6. The Structure of the Earth

8. Crustal Plates

9. Types of Crust Oceanic crust that lies under the ocean, is mainly basalt and 5-7km thick Continental crust 20-50km thick and composed mainly of granite; it makes up the large land masses – the continents Continental crust is low density and “floats” on top of the mantle whereas oceanic crust is much higher density

10. Convection Currents

11. Destructive (Convergent) Plate Boundary (Margin) subduction

12. Constructive (Divergent) Plate Boundary (Margin) Sea floor spreading

13. Cross section of the Atlantic

14. Other Plate Boundaries - Collision India colliding with Asian subcontinent

15. Other Plate Boundaries - Conservative San Andreas fault California

16. Rift Valley and Block Mountains

18. The end result

19. But is it all bad?

20. Task Produce an A3 summary sheet to show the 4 plate boundaries (destructive, constructive, collision and conservative) You need a cross-sectional diagram of each For each boundary you should; describe what is happening, give a real example of a place in the world where this boundary can be found, outline the type of tectonic (volcanic and earthquake) activity linked with each boundary.