Different Processes That Occur Along Plate Boundaries: Learning Activity Sheet #4 Science 10

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LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET #4 SCHOOL YEAR


2021-2022
SCIENCE 10
Different Processes that Occur
Along Plate Boundaries
Name: Grade & Section:

LEARNING COMPETENCIES:
At the end of the module, learners will be able to:
1. illustrate the layers of the earth;
2. explain the different processes that occur along plate boundaries; and
3. realize the importance of a balanced life by thinking of ways on how to do it.
(GOOD HEART-GOODNESS)
LEARNING RESOURCES/MATERIALS:
Science for Innovative Minds DIWA Textbooks

LEARNING CONCEPTS
For the past weeks, we have been closely analyzing the facts of the Plate Tectonics Theory. It
states that the Earth's solid outer crust, the lithosphere, is separated into plates that move over the
asthenosphere, the molten upper portion of the mantle. Oceanic and continental plates come
together, spread apart, and interact at boundaries all over the planet. But come to think of it. If these
zones interact which each other, what would be the effect underneath? Or is there something
happening deep down below which causes these boundaries to force itself to crash with other
boundaries? Let’s find out.

GETTING STARTED

Look at the comic strip below and answer the questions below.

1. What is the picture about?


2. Where do you think did the man land when he fell?
"It was clear from our data that there was a transition 3.2 billion years ago, and rocks formed after that could be related to plate tectonic
processes,” said Tomas Naeraa, a researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland who led the study (livescience.com). Based on their
study of the ancient rocks from Greenland, they proposed that modern plate tectonics which includes the subduction, convergence, seafloor spreading,
and other geologic events probably started about 3.2 billion years ago (the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old). Before that, a much different set of
processes shaped the Earth's surface.

LET’S INVESTIGATE.

Man has attempted to study our planet’s interior


Layers of the Earth with their relative
through waves and vibration which is accomplished
densities
through seismology. The Earth has 4 major layers
namely: (a) solid inner core (1.7 %) of the earth’s mass,
(b) liquid outer core (30.8%), (c) upper and lower
mantle (67%) and the (d) continental and oceanic crust
(0.473%). The Moho or the Mohorovicic Discontinuity
is the layer between the crust and the mantle. At this
discontinuity, seismic waves accelerate.

Source: earthlearningidea.com

What is now the connection between understanding the layers of the Earth’s interior and the processes occurring along plate boundaries?
Let’s find out.

LET’S BUCKLE UP.

Have you heard of the Plate Tectonic Story? After learning about the layers of the Earth’s interior, you may be validating your thoughts about the idea
that heat from magma through convection currents within the mantle cause the plates to move, spread and be deformed to form new geological structures.
In the last module, you were able to identify the geologic features formed by the convergent, divergent, and transform plate boundaries. It’s now time to
learn what happens when these zones interact with each other.
LET’S THINK BIG.
Most of the Earth’s dramatic events take place in the margins of plate boundaries that collide. If plates are converging to form
subduction zones whether it’s a continental - continental plate or continental-oceanic plate collision, there must be somewhere else where plates are
diverging or sliding past each other. You can hardly imagine how destructive or productive it could be because, in these zones, new materials may arise
or may even be destroyed. In the next activity, you will translate what have learned by relating the formation of some of the most breathtaking places in
the world with the processes that occur along plate boundaries.

Activity. Geologists in Action


This activity will enable you to relate the concepts of the process along the plate boundaries with the different geologic features found
in the whole world. Complete the diagram below.

LANDFORMS ALONG
PLATE BOUNDARIES
 
 
                                     
MOUNTAINOUS AND FLUVIAL AND
AEOLIAN EROSIONAL 14 15
GLACIAL COASTAL
         
         
1 4 7 10 GRASSLANDS
       
2 5 8 11
       
3 6 9 12
 
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