Volcanoes, earthquakes and many of the great, in size, mountains (the Himalayas, Rockies, Urals, Alps, and the Appalachians) will all be marked on my map at some point in this project. Now just let me tell you some interesting facts about some of these topics.
Since recorded history, 550 volcanoes have erupted on the earth’s surface, but even far more have erupted unobserved on the ocean floor.
The enormous Himalayas and many other great mountains are known to be young Fold Mountains. Young, because these have been formed relatively recently in the earth’s history, compared to other mountain ranges like the Aravallis in India and the Appalachian in the USA. These are known as fold mountains because they extend for 2500 km in length in a series of parallel ridges or folds. This information has been found using a theory that took place in 1912, by a German meteorologist, named Alfred Wegener. This theory is the Theory of Continental Drift.
In the real ocean, plenty of natural disasters can trigger a similar event. Caused by a paddle-effect of an earthquake, underwater volcano or even an asteroid, sunamis are enormously dangerous stealth waves that travel vast distances across the ocean.
Is there a pattern or repetitiveness in certain areas on earth where volcano’s, earthquakes and mountain ranges commonly appear?
a) Earthquakes are most likely to occur where tectonic plates meet or hit each other.
b) Volcanoes are most likely to occur where tectonic plates split apart or separate from each other, allowing magma to come up through the cracks.
The Essay on Latest Earth Theories
Plate tectonics rend to describe the huge scale motions of the earth’s lithosphere. The theory actually encompasses old concepts of the continental drift developed in the twentieth century and seafloor distribution hence it was clearly understood from the year 1960. The modern theory states that the lithospheric plate movement means the continental drift and it is caused by the radioactive mantle ...
c) Mountain ranges are most likely to occur where one plate slips under another allowing the magma to come up or collide and push up on each other.
The materials that were used during this project were Science and Technology, The Complete Atlas of the World, the computer, the Internet, pens and pencils.
The different steps I took at conjuring up information to apply to the work that has been assigned, was to:
Step 1) Check in my science textbook, to find the longitude and latitude for each of the huge volcanoes and earthquakes that have happened in history and mark them on my map.
Step 2) Check in my atlas, to find the huge mountain ranges that still stand today and mark them on my map.
Step 3) Go onto the Internet, to find interesting facts about each of the topics.
Step 4) Check my science textbook for information on the rest of the questions and if there was nothing there, I would think up the answers myself.
The earth’s crust is not one big piece of rock, but it is composed of several huge, solid sections, called plates. The plates move slowly as they float on the semi-liquid Mantle below. The plates are moving relative to one another. These different plates can cause volcanoes to erupt, earthquakes to occur and mountain ranges to appear. For example dome mountains, fold mountains and block mountains. These different kinds of mountains are created using a process called subduction, and fault lines. The observations that I have taken are relative to these deviant points.
The information that has been collected during this experiment relates to our every day lives because it can tell where there are active volcanoes and areas that have earthquakes occurring, so cities in that area would be able to make safety and environmental precautions. It could help areas undergoing fault lines, just not horizontally but vertically, so they could build in relation to these wicked faults.
