1. Forces Building the Land Chapter 2

4. What we are going to look at in this chapter… The Geologic age of the Earth The ability of parts of the Earth’s crust to move around How volcanoes and earthquakes are formed by plate tectonics

7. Convection currents

8. Show slide show of plate tectonics (2) Teachers domain Plate Tectonics: Alfred Wegener

9. Movement of plates

12. The Sudbury Basin

13. The Big Nickel, Sudbury ON

14. Most Volcanic activity

16. Geologic Eras

17. Take a trip into the Earth’s History http://www.scotese.com/

19. Precambrian Era

22. Animals in the Mesozoic Era

24. Reptile Family Tree

26. The Four Eras of Geologic Time What do you notice? First Invertebrates First land plants First fish First reptiles First amphibians First dinosaurs, mammals, birds End of dinosaurs Millions of years ago 0- 100- 200- 300- 400- 500- 600- 700- 4600-

28. Label the Landform regions and create a legend wb. P. 12