Readings on Plate Tectonics

Last week, we spent some time during class reading about the interactions that happen between plates at their boundaries.  We read through Chapters 1 and 2 in an interactive ebook available in iTunes U.  If you have iTunes, you can access this entire book for free:

California Academy of Sciences: Earthquake

The chapters are relatively short, and have short videos and interactive graphics that help with the learning process.  We took notes and drew diagrams representing the three major plate boundary interactions that we found near the end of Chapter 1.  We also read about Pangaea and Plate Tectonics in Chapter 2, where we learned that all of our continents were at one point connected in one large land mass hundreds of millions of years ago.

Here is a study guide that was handed out during class to help with this reading.

Plate Tectonics Reading Guide