MS-ESS2.B-1

Fury the Capybara

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Game Info for Teachers

COMBINED RATING

4.0 Stars

TEACHERS (10)

3.9

STUDENTS (2273)

4.0

LENGTH

20 Minutes

GRADES

CAPABILITIES

iPad Support

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

Saves Progress

Description

Fury, the Capybara, is a movie director with a particular personality; he’s really grumpy. The objective of the game is to buy props for Fury’s next show, while learning the plate tectonics characteristics and playing multiple minigames to achieve his objective, while acquiring awesome props and items for your movie set. The game offers two modes: Story Mode, where you will be lectured about plate tectonics and play fun minigames. Practice Mode, where you can go directly to have fun, while recapitulaing the main topics with the summarized activities.

Vocabulary Words

plate tectonics

crust

lithosphere

asthenosphere

mantle

viscosity

lower mantle

outer core

inner core

magnetic field

convection circulation

Theory of Continental Drift

Alfred Wegener

volcanoes

plate boundaries

convergent boundary

divergent boundary

transform boundary

mid ocean ridge

magma

subduction

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Plate Tectonics. Suitable for Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

At a transform plate boundary, tectonic plates slide relative to each other.

At a divergent plate boundary, tectonic plates move away from each other.

At a convergent plate boundary, tectonic plates move towards each other.

The theory of plate tectonics is supported by consistent patterns of earthquake locations.

The theory of plate tectonics is supported by seafloor spreading.

A mid-ocean ridge is a divergent plate boundary where new ocean crust forms through volcanic eruptions.

The major tectonic plates are the Eurasian, African, Indo-Australian, Pacific, North American, and South American plates.

Most of the active volcanoes on Earth are located along tectonic plate boundaries.

Continental drift was the theory proposed by Alfred Wegener that explained the movement of the continents.

The motion of tectonic plates is due to convection within Earth's mantle.

Subduction occurs at a deep sea trench where two tectonic plates converge, forcing oceanic rock to sink into Earth's mantle.

The theory of plate tectonics explains how the continents have moved apart from one initial continental mass called Pangea.

Earthquakes typically occur at transform and convergent tectonic plate boundaries.

Mountains can be formed from volcanic activity and tectonic plate collisions at plate boundaries.

The lithosphere includes the upper region of solid rock in Earth's mantle as well as Earth's crust.

The motion of continents occurs on a very slow time scale (approximately a few centimeters per year) .

Seafloor spreading involves the formation of new ocean rock at a mid-ocean ridge that pushes older ocean rock away towards deep sea trenches, where it is destroyed.

Folding, faulting, and breaking are geologic processes due to tectonic plate movement that cause physical changes in rocks.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What will you find if you journeyed to the center of the Earth? What are volcanoes and how do they form? What are tectonic plates?

After the Game

What are the types of plate boundaries, and how are they different? What does the formation of volcanoes tell scientists about the earth's plates? What are the layers of the Earth?