Standard Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Processes Activities, Models, and Simulations ES.7 In to meet this standard, it is expected that Activities: The student will investigate and understand students will ES.7a, b ES.1b, e geologic processes including plate tectonics. on a map the physiographic provinces of Key concepts include - Investigate patterns in the and magnitude of Virginia. geologic processes and their resulting earthquakes around the world. (Model) comprehend the topographic, rock-type and features; and geologic-structural characteristics of each b) tectonic processes. ES.7a, b ES.1b, e physiographic province of Virginia. analyze the geologic history of Virginia in Observe at patterns of earthquakes below Earth's terms of the structures, rock types, and surface and relate earthquakes to plate topography represented in the five movement. (Model) physiographic provinces. integrate and interpret the rock cycle, plate ES.7a, b ES.1b, e tectonics, and Virginia’s geology in an interacting diagram. analyze how multiple continental collisions Use software called *Seismic Waves: A program for and rifting events over the last billion years the visualization of wave propagation* to illustrate have created the current physiography of how waves from an earthquake travel to seismic Virginia. stations throughout the earth. (Model) comprehend and apply the details of Plate Tectonics Theory to the formation of Models/Simulations: continents, mountain chains, island arcs, deep open trenches, earthquake zones, and continental and midocean volcanism. analyze the composition and structure of the continental and oceanic lithosphere in of topographic features, density, thickness, and rates of motion. compare and contrast various types of volcanism and geothermal activity (i.e., Hawaii, Iceland, Mount St. Helens, Catoctin Greenstone, Tambora, the Deccan Traps, and Yellowstone). compare and contrast different of current and ancient plate boundaries (i.e., Japan, California, New Madrid, Missouri, the Appalachian system, Iceland, and Tonga). analyze how seismic waves provide evidence of the structure of the deep Earth including the inner and outer core in terms of composition, density, and viscosity.
Standard Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Processes Activities, Models, and Simulations ES.7 The student will investigate and understand geologic processes including plate tectonics. Key concepts include geologic processes and their resulting features; and b) tectonic processes. In to meet this standard, it is expected that students will on a map the physiographic provinces of Virginia. comprehend the topographic, rock-type and geologic-structural characteristics of each physiographic province of Virginia. analyze the geologic history of Virginia in terms of the structures, rock types, and topography represented in the five physiographic provinces. integrate and interpret the rock cycle, plate tectonics, and Virginia’s geology in an interacting diagram. analyze how multiple continental collisions and rifting events over the last billion years have created the current physiography of Virginia. comprehend and apply the details of Plate Tectonics Theory to the formation of continents, mountain chains, island arcs, deep open trenches, earthquake zones, and continental and midocean volcanism. analyze the composition and structure of the continental and oceanic lithosphere in of topographic features, density, thickness, and rates of motion. compare and contrast various types of volcanism and geothermal activity (i.e., Hawaii, Iceland, Mount St. Helens, Catoctin Greenstone, Tambora, the Deccan Traps, and Yellowstone). compare and contrast different of current and ancient plate boundaries (i.e., Japan, California, New Madrid, Missouri, the Appalachian system, Iceland, and Tonga). analyze how seismic waves provide evidence of the structure of the deep Earth including the inner and outer core in terms of composition, density, and viscosity. Activities: ES.7a, b ES.1b, e - Investigate patterns in the and magnitude of earthquakes around the world. (Model) ES.7a, b ES.1b, e Observe at patterns of earthquakes below Earth's surface and relate earthquakes to plate movement. (Model) ES.7a, b ES.1b, e Use software called *Seismic Waves: A program for the visualization of wave propagation* to illustrate how waves from an earthquake travel to seismic stations throughout the earth. (Model) Models/Simulations:
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