Key Understandings:
- Earth's Interior (Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core)
- Convection
- Plate Tectonics
- Lithospheric plates "float" on the plastic mantle.
- Plate Boundary Types (ex. convergent vs. divergent)
- Mid-Ocean Ridges
- Evidence of plate movement
- Earthquakes
- Seismic Waves (P-Waves and S-Waves)
- Locating Epicenters using 3 seismograph stations
- Tsunamis
- Volcanoes
- Emergency Preparedness