Science Standard VI, Earth and Space Science
Lesson 611, Plate Tectonics
Defining composition
Identifying the layers of the Earth
Defining inner core, outer core, mantle, upper mantle, lower mantle, silicates, asthenosphere, and lithosphere
Defining plastic
Identifying the atmospheres
Describing crustal plates
Understanding the role of nuclear fusion, radioactive decay, uranium, and convection currents
Describing the theory of plate tectonics and the theory of seafloor spreading
Describing an earthquake and continental drift
Understanding the history of Pangaea and a supercontinent
Defining focus, epicenter, and margins (constructive, conservative, and destructive)
Describing the result of a volcanic eruption
Identifying seafloor spreading, the mid-Atlantic Ridge, the San Andreas Fault, and the Richter scale
Listing four ways plates interact with one another
Stating an explanation for plate movement
Knowing fusion and fission at the earth’s core
Explaining how radioactive decay and gravitational energy generate Earth’s internal heat
Understanding convection of Earth’s internal heat as the power behind plate movement
Defining volcano, lava, subduction, eruption, fault, earthquake, seismologist, seismograph, epicenter, and magnitude