January 29, 2018 Reading Assignment

Read the following pages in the textbook.

Answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper. Do your own work, this is not group or partner work!

Read Pages 9A – 13A

  • Answer questions 1-4 on page 13A

Read pages 14A – 19A

  • Answer “Check Your Reading” question at the bottom of page 15A: Which evidence for continental drift do you think is the most convincing? Explain your answer.
  • Answer “Check Your Reading” question on p. 17A: How does the age of the sea floor show that plates move?
  • Answer questions 1-4, 6 on page 19A

Read pages 22A – 28A

  • Answer “Check Your Reading” question on p. 25A: “Explain how records of magnetic reversals show that plates move apart.”
  • Answer “Check Your Reading” question on p. 26A: “What happens when the floor of a rift valley sinks below sea level?”
  • Answer“Reading Visuals” question on p. 28A: “Which island or landform in each diagram was formed first? How do you know?”
  • Answer “Check Your Reading” question on p. 28A: “How does a hot-spot volcano form?”
  • Answer questions 1-6 on page 28A

Read pages 30A – 36A

  • Answer“Check Your Reading” question on 31A: “Explain how colliding plates form mountain ranges?”
  • Answer “Reading Visuals” question on 31A: “Why can neither plate sink under the other?”
  • Answer “Reading Visuals” question on 32A: “Where in the diagram is crust being formed? Where is the crust being destroyed?
  • Answer“Check Your Reading” question on 33A:“Why do deep-ocean trenches form at both types of subduction?”
  • Answer “Check Your Reading” question on p 34A: “What makes the San Andreas Fault a transform boundary?”
  • Answer“Reading Visuals” question on p35A: “Where else on the map above can you find a transform, divergent, and convergent boundary?”
  • Answer “Check Your Reading question” on 36A: “What future events can scientists predict using the theory of plate tectonics? Give two examples.”
  • Answer questions 1-5 on 36A
  • Answer questions 7-15 on 39A
  • Answer questions 1-9 on 41A

Read pages 53A-59A

  • Answer “Check Your Reading” question on 54A: When might the youngest layer in a set of sedimentary rock layers not be on top?
  • Answer “Reading Visuals” question on p 54A: Where re the youngest layers in each photo?
  • Answer “Check your Reading question on p. 55A: Why is igneous rock always younger than any rock it cuts through?
  • Answer “Check Your Reading” question on p. 57A: What is the difference between relative age and absolute age? Use an example in your explanation.
  • Answer “Reading Visuals” question on p 58A: How do the relative amounts of uranium 235 and lead 207 in the igneous rock change over time?
  • Answer “Check Your Reading” question on p. 59A: How might the absolute age of an igneous rock layer help scientists to determine the ages of nearby sedimentary rock layers?
  • Answer questions 1-5 on p. 59A
  • Answer questions 17-20 on 72A and 1-5 on 73A