World Tectonics Map Exercise
World Earthquakes and Volcanoes Map Exercise
The six maps are given as individual jpg files (and also as a layered Photoshop stack of maps).
Print out the six layers.
Xerox the instructions and Maps 2-6 onto paper, and xerox Map 1 onto a transparency. For best results do all the copying at the same time; machines tend to change scale from day to day. Make one set for each 3-4 students.
Supply each group with one red and one dark-colored WASHABLE transparency pen. (If they use permanent, you will have to throw the transparency away and do the copying all over again.)
The Exercise, below, is one I used on the first day in my Upper Division Plate Tectonics Class.
Feel free to alter it to suit your own purposes.
Isn’t plate tectonics great? Enjoy!
(modified October 15, 2008)
Full Downloads:
Instructions: (.doc)
Download Exercise Instructions
World: (.jpg)
Download Image1
Photoshop file: (.psd)
Download World Tectonics Map
Download Page Instructions:
PC
(right click link and scroll down to "Save Download As"...)
MAC
(hold control and click link, then drag down to "Download Link to Disk")