By: Mrs. Edgar, Mrs.

Porzio, and

Earths Systems Interact

Landscapes are controlled by interactions between Earths internal and

external heat machines (Homeostasis)

Topographic Maps--Contour Lines

Remember Topographic
Maps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy
mUFSwEm3c
Click on this link, watch the video from
1:18-2:25 and answer questions 1 and
2.

 Thermal energy always moves from

warmer to cooler objects.
Heat is the result of molecules
vibrating quickly.
Heat is moving energy.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEPG
MnRqGs
Watch this video on Heat Energy and
answer questions 3 and 4.

 The movement of a substance that is

caused by differences in temperature and
density.
EXAMPLES: Ocean Currents,
Warm equatorial currents flow toward the
poles, while polar currents flow towards
the equator
NATURE LIKES EVERYTHING
TO BE EVEN! (Homeostasis)

The Layers of the

Earth
Answer question # 5

Earths Layers
The Earth is divided into four
main layers.
*Inner Core
*Outer Core
*Mantle
*Crust

Watch this video and

answer questions 6
and 7.
http://www.learner.
org/interactives/dy
namicearth/structur
e.html

Plate Tectonics
Wegners
Continental
Drift
Tectonic Plates
move on Earths
surface, the
convection heat
beneath
them moving them.
90% of the worlds earthquakes
and volcanoes occur along the
Ring of Fire.

Plate Boundary
DIVERGENT
(Constructive plate
boundary)

CONVERGENT
(Where two plates
collide, destructive
plate boundary)

SUBDUCTION (Type
of convergent
boundary)

Diagram

Plate Boundaries
Description

Example

Constructive plate
boundaries occur when

North American and

two plates move away

Eurasian Plate

from each other .

Collision plate
boundaries occur when
two continental plates
move towards each

Indo-Australian and
the Eurasian Plate

other.
Destructive plate
boundaries occur when

North American Plate

an oceanic plate is

and the Juan da Fuca

forced under (or

Plate

subducts) a
continental plate .
Conservative plate
TRANSFORM (plates
slide past each other)

boundaries occur when

two plates slide past
each other.

North
American and Pacific
Plate

Volcanoes & Earthquakes-talk about your heat transfer!

Watch this video and answer question 9.

://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmol
ogy-and-astronomy/earth-history-topic
/seismic-waves-tutorial/v/seismic-wav
es

Watch this video and answer question

10.

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/educ
ation/activity/types-of-volcanic-eruptions/?
ar_a=1

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Types of Magma:
Basaltic- low-silica, low
viscosity, runny lava flow
(shield volcanoes)
Andesitic- moderate to high
explosions (composite and
cinder cone volcanoes)
Granitic- high-silica, viscous,
(composite and cinder cone
volcanoes)

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Earthquakes
Click on the link below and follow the
directions on question #12.
http://environment.nationalgeographic.
com/environment/naturaldisasters/forces-of-nature/

TYPES OF ROCKS

Igneous (fire-formed)
Sedimentary (settled & pressed)
Metamorphic (heat & pressure)

ROCK CYCLE

Weathering and Erosion

Watch the Breaker and Whoosh Video and answer
question 13.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvKkPFoRiaw

Glaciers
Find out what evidence is left behind that glaciers
once covered an area! Click on the link below and
answer question 14.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG3luuhc-5Y

ASTRONOMY Space: The

Final Frontier!
Rotationthe Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours.

RevolutionEarths elliptical orbit around the Sun in 365

days.

Seasons
The angle of the Suns rays as they hit the Earth is
determined by the relative positions of Sun and Earth

Sun, Earth, and Moon

The Moon orbits

the Earth
The Moon orbit at
an angle with
respect to the
Earths orbit
around the Sun
The Moon doesnt
shine on its own;
it reflects
sunlight
The scale of the
Moon and Earths

The Sun shines on

the Moon.
When the
sunlight
reflects off
the Moons far
side, we call
it a New Moon
When the
sunlight
reflects off on
the Moons near
side, we call
it a Full Moon
CHECK IT OUT!

Phases of the Moon

What are Tides?

They are the regular rise and fall in sea level on the
Earth resulting from the gravitational pull of the Moon
and Sun on Earths waters.

Lunar Eclipses

FULL
MOON

When the Earths shadow covers the Moon, we have a lunar eclipse

Solar Eclipses

NEW
MOON

When the Moons shadow covers part of the Earth

Only happens at New Moon

Solar system, Galaxy, or

Universe?
Answer question #20 on the MCAS review sheet.

There it is--everything you

ever wanted to know about