Fault Lines & Tectonic Plates: Discover What Happens When the Earth's Crust Moves With 25 ProjectsNomad Press, 16 ene 2017 - 128 páginas The ground beneath your feet is solid, right? After all, how could we build houses and bridges if the land was moving all the time? Actually, the ground beneath us really is moving very slowly all the time! In Fault Lines and Tectonic Plates: Discover What Happens When the Earth’s Crust Moves, readers ages 9 through 12 learn what exactly is going on under the dirt. When slowly drifting continents bump up against each other along fault lines we experience earthquakes, volcanoes, and tidal waves! Mountains and trenches are visible results of the slow movement of the earth’s crust, as tectonic plates create the landscape of our world over time. With science-minded projects such as a homemade earthquake “shake table” and edible tectonic boundaries, this book makes the complex and fascinating topic of plate tectonics accessible for kids. Readers learn the geological reasons behind earthquakes and also practical ways of behaving in those types of natural disasters. Links to online primary sources and videos make concepts clear and encourage kids to maintain a healthy curiosity in the topic. Guided reading levels and Lexile measurements place this title with appropriate audiences. |
Índice
The Movement of Tectonic Plates | 6 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Volcanoes | 47 |
Ridges and Trenches | 65 |
Plate Science History | 91 |
The Future of Plate Tectonics | 106 |
Glossary Metric Conversions | 118 |
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accretionary wedge basalt building called coloring continental continents convergent boundary created creatures divergent boundary earth earth’s crust earth’s surface earthquake ESSENTIAL QUESTION fault line feet flow force formed fossil Fun Fact geological geologist happens heat IDEAS FOR SUPPLIES inch inner core land landforms large igneous province layer lithosphere look magma mantle Mariana Trench measure melted mid-ocean ridges miles million years ago mountain movement North numbers ocean floor ocean ridge ocean trenches oceanic crust oceanic plate Pacific Plate Pangaea paper Period pieces planet plate boundaries plate slides plate tectonics plates move pressure push Richter scale Rift valleys scientists sea floor sediment seismic wave seismograph shape shield volcano slowly solid South American Plate stratovolcano subduction zones supercontinent tape tectonic plate temperature tephra theory there’s transform boundary tsunami upper plate volcanic arc volcano erupts Wegener’s what’s WORDS TO KNOW