Plate Tectonics Lab-5

Plate: Pacific Plate
Group: Brooke, Kristin, Daniel, Kristin

Observations:
The Pacific Plate runs along the western coast of North America starting in Alaska and the eastern coast of Asia at Japan until the northern coast of Austria.
This plate is famous for the Ring of Fire - a string of active volcanos that are location on the boundaries of the plate.
It is also home to large amounts of seismic activity. Including deep seismic activity on the plate border near the coastline of Asia and more shallow seismic activity along the North America.
The northern plate border goes 10,000 ft + below sea level.
This plate contains the largest concentration of seafloor aged 154 - 180 million years old on the coast of Asia.
The newer seafloor is along the coast of North America.

Plate Tectonics Lab-4

Map: Geochronology
Group: Brooke, Kristin, Daniel, Emily

Observations:
The oldest seafloor occurs furthest away from the plate boundaries.
The newer seafloor is occurs along the plate boundaries.
The only exception is long the western coastline of Asia. This could be due to lack of information.

Plate Tectonics Lab-3

Map: Geography
Group: Brooke, Kristin, Daniel, Emily

Observations:
There are deep mountain ranges along the plate boundaries in the Pacific Ocean.
Antarctica and Greenland have a high elevation.
You can make out the plate boundaries under the ocean.
Most of the western part of Asia is close to sea level.
The northern oceans are at sea level.

Plate Tectonics Lab - 2

Map: Volcanology
Group: Brooke, Kristin, Daniel, Emily

Observations:
Volcanos loosely occur along the plate boundaries.
The volcanos along the coast of Alaska occurring out into the ocean follow an underwater mountain range.
Volcanos occur more frequently along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
No volcanos occur where the large deposits of oil reserves are in western coast of South America, eastern Africa, and northeast in Saudi Arabia.
Volcanos occur frequently along with the deepest seismic activity.
Iceland has a large concentration of volcanos.
Volcanos are occurring frequently in northwestern Africa around Ethiopia due to the rift of two opposing mountain ranges.

Plate Tectonics Lab -1

Map: Seismology
Group: Brooke, Kristin, Daniel, Emily

Observations:
The majority of earthquakes occur at 0-33km deep.
The majority of the earthquakes occur along the plate boundaries.
The deepest earthquakes (300-700km) usually occur in deep water. Exception: along the east side of the Andes Mountain in South America.
The earthquakes along the ocean tend to be more shallow than those that follow the boundaries on the land.
Earthquakes occurring at 70-300 km and 33-70 km usually occur along coastal areas.
Most earthquakes occur between 60 degrees North or South of the equator.
No earthquakes are reported in Antarctica, Greenland, and certain parts of Canada.

Observation Assignment

1) Observation #1:

My new dog Pidge, rather than gently laying down at night or for naps plops, down rather hard when she lays down to sleep. It is loud enough to wake me up at night. (She does sleep in the same room)

2) Question:

I wonder why she does this rather than gently laying down like most other dogs?

3) Other Observations:

She is rather young and high strung.

She is new to the house and still feeling us out.

She plops down hard whether it is on the hardwood floor or her soft sleeping cushion.

She has not been around a lot of other dogs.

4) Answer the Question:

I think she plops down because she doesn’t know any better. She also does not have any real experience around other dogs.

5) Two other Hypotheses:

She is young enough that things like a small discomfort of plopping down doesn’t bother her. She even plays rough.

It must not cause her any real pain or she wouldn’t do it ever time she lays down.

Mapping UNM

Brooke & Kristin

We mapped the Lobo News stands as well as the Albuquerque Journal, NY Times, and the Alibi.