3. Objectives:
Describe the distribution of active
volcanoes, earthquake epicenters and
major mountain belts.
Determine the scientific basis for
dividing the Lithospheric Plates.
4. 1 whole:
Copy and Answer Q5-Q14
Trace the earthquake
distribution around the
world and the approximate
locations of several
volcanoes in two separate
plastic sheets.
20. Remember:
Places on earth where most of the
earthquakes originated or some
mountains and volcanoes were
formed mark the boundaries of each
lithospheric plate.
Each plate is slowly moving relative to
each other, causing geologic events
to happen along their boundaries.
21. Remember:
Plates are large pieces of the upper
few hundred kilometers of Earth that
move as a single unit as it floats
above the mantle.
As plates interact along their margins,
important geological processes take
place,
such as the formation of mountain belts,
earthquakes, and volcanoes.
