1. August 19 & 20 Welcome Task
Pick up your lab notebook and a textbook “Inside Earth”
Copy all words and define:
Crust
Mantle
Inner Core
Outer Core
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Convection
Conduction
Radiation
Convection Current
Density
Continental Drift
Plate tectonics
Pangea
Plate

2. Create a Thinking Map: Whole to Part
Use the information from the textbook
Cut the picture of the “Layers of the Earth”
Make a Thinking Map to show Whole to Part and a description of the layers
Depth
Temperature
Composition
State of Matter

3. Crust
Lithosphere
Mantle
Asthenosphere
Outer Core
Inner Core

4. Heat Transfer RADIATION DENSITY Low High CONDUCTION CONVECTION
CONVECTION CURRENT

5. CONVECTION & EARTH
How does the change in temperature affect density and cause the convection current here?

6. Convection and The Ocean Currents
Why does the ocean
Move?
How are
Convection and
Density involved?

7. How can density explain a floating iceberg?
How can convection explain melting or freezing of an iceberg?

8. THE BIG PUZZLE! Continental Drift Plate tectonics Pangea Plate
Use the evidence
provided to recreate
What scientist believe
Was once Pangea
According to their theory
of Continental Drift and
Plate Tectonics.

9. Continental Drift and Plate Tectonic Theory Analysis Activity
Carefully cut the continents and plates out, so that they are individual pieces (do not mix the pictures of the continents with the plates)
Use the evidence markings: fossil, land formations, similar features; to match up the continents’ edges (do the same for the plates)
Glue down your pieces once you have figured out the best place for each piece
This is how scientists came up with the theory of Continental Drift and Plate tectonics.