C7.1 Japan - Lesson 3: Country in the Ring of Fire

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C7.1: Japan: country in the Ring of Fire

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What's the plan for today?

1. Start with the first paragraph:

C7.1: Japan: country in the Ring of Fire

TODAYS GOALS

1. You can give a connection between land use and relief in Japan.
2. You can explain the difference between endogenic and exogenic forces.
3. You can name the 3 types of movements tectonic plates can make.
4. You can name 2 differences between continental and oceanic plates.
   
5. You can explain what the Ring of fire is.

You can explain these terms in your own words: Earth’s crust, core, mantle, magma, lava, convection current, plates, faults, plate tectonics (GG 66 + 67).

The world is a puzzle of moving plates

These plates move in different directions

For example: India

The Indian plate used to be next to Africa.

You can name the 3 types of movements tectonic plates can make.

1. Transform
2. Divergent
3. Convergent

THE RING OF FIRE

You can explain what the Ring of Fire is.

THE LATEST EARTHQUAKES

TERMS OF C7.1

You can explain these terms in your own words: Earth’s crust, core, mantle, magma, lava, convection current, plates, faults, plate tectonics (GG 66 + 67).

• Open your GeoGuide on pages 51-53.
• Use figure 3.4 in your GeoGuide
• Use the finish of C7 in your coursebook.
• Make a drawing in your notebook of the earth that includes the terms above.

Finished? Start with questions 2 to 5 in your workbook.

The rest of the lesson..

• Read C7.1 in your coursebook (p. 104-105).
• Read G66 + G67 in your GeoGuide (p. 51-52).
• Make 2 to 5 in your workbook.

Are you finished?

• Ask for an atlas and make the first exercise about the topography of Japan.

HOMEWORK

C7.1: Make 2 to 5.