Lab Station 1: Tectonic Plate Boundaries

Lab Station 2: Faults

A

B

C

D

Lab Station 3: Layers of the Earth

A

B

C

D

Lab Station 4: Evidence for Continental Drift

Glaciation:

Lab Station 5: The Ocean Floor

Map of Mid-Ocean Ridges:

Map of Ocean Trenches:

Lab Station 6: Tectonic Plate Movement

Tectonic Plates and the directions they are moving:

Lab Station 7: Hot Spots

Yellowstone Cauldera Hot Spot: *** The numbers mean “millions of years ago.”

Name: __________________________________________ Date: ______________ Period: ______ LAB

Geology Practice Lab

Directions: You will have 4 minutes at each lab station to look at the pictures and answer the

corresponding questions. Be sure the questions you are answering match the lab station you are at!

Lab Station 1:

1. Identify what type of boundary each of the boundaries in the bottom picture is. If it’s convergent,

say what kind of convergent boundary it is.

A. ____________________________________________

B. ____________________________________________

C. ____________________________________________

D. ____________________________________________

E. ____________________________________________

2. Look at the map of Earth’s tectonic plates. Give an example of the plate boundaries below:

A. Divergent: _____________________________________________________________

B. Convergent:

i. Oceanic-continental Subduction: ______________________________________

ii. Continental-continental collision: ______________________________________

C. Transform: _____________________________________________________________

3. What feature/landform is found at a divergent boundary? ______________________________

4. What feature/landform is found at convergent boundaries that involve Subduction?

5. What feature/landform is found at convergent boundaries that involve 2 continents colliding?

Lab Station 2:

1. Identify the types of faults seen in A-C. Say what kind of boundary you think each fault would be

found at.

A. ___________________________ Boundary: ____________________________________

B. ___________________________ Boundary: ____________________________________

C. ___________________________ Boundary: ____________________________________

2. What kind of fault is shown in picture D? __________________________ How do you know?

Lab Station 3:

1. Identify and describe A-D in the first picture.

A. ________________________________

B. ________________________________

C. ________________________________

D. ________________________________

2. Fill in the blanks for A-D on the second picture.

A. ________________________________

B. ________________________________

C. ________________________________

D. ________________________________

3. Explain how A-D in the second picture relate to tectonic plates.

Lab Station 4:

1. How does the evidence showing in the pictures support the continental drift hypothesis?

2. What could be some other explanations for the evidence shown?

3. Which piece of evidence do you find most convincing?

4. What does the map of glaciation tell you about the ancient climate in those areas? Where did

those areas of the continent have to be?

Lab Station 5:

1. What is happening at Mid-Ocean Ridges? What boundaries are often found here?

2. What is happening at Ocean Trenches? What boundary is often found here?

3. Name the largest example of:

a. Mid-Ocean Ridges: ___________________________________________________

b. Ocean Trenches: _____________________________________________________

4. Give an example of an area where oceanic-oceanic Subduction is occurring.

5. Give an example of an area where oceanic-continental Subduction is occurring.

Lab Station 6:

1. Fill in the blanks for A-C.

A. ___________________________________

B. ___________________________________

C. ___________________________________

2. What boundaries are shown at:

A. ___________________________________

B. ___________________________________

3. What landforms/features are seen at:

A. ___________________________________

B. ___________________________________

4. List at least 2 forces that are moving each of the plates below:

A. African: _________________________________________________________

B. South American: __________________________________________________

C. Eurasian: ________________________________________________________

Lab Station 7:

1. What is a hot spot?

2. Which way is the plate in the first picture moving?

3. How long did it take for the Hawaiian Islands to form?

4. What other island chain can you infer this hot spot formed?

5. Which way is the North American plate moving? (Hint: Yellowstone is in the N.A. plate…)

Lab Station 8: Work on HW: Study Guide