Orange County Volcanoes

Guided Notes

Directions:

Please answer these questions and complete the activities while you are listening to the Orange County
Volcanoes lecture!

What would it be like to live at the base of a volcano?

https://unsplash.com/images/nature/volcano
Are the Santiago Peak Volcanics active or extinct?

Where are the Santiago Peak Volcanics located?

NOW YOU TRY: If Santiago Peak volcano is now extinct, does that
mean that the ground under us right now is not moving? Defend
your answer!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
commons/b/b3/Santiago_south.jpg
NOW YOU TRY: So the Earth under California is still active! How can
that be?

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Describe each type of plate boundary and then draw what it looks like:
1. Divergent Plate Boundary

2. Convergent Plate Boundary

3. Transform Plate Boundary

https://www.thoughtco.com/map-of-tectonic-
plates-and-their-boundaries-1441098
 How did our Santiago Peak extinct volcano form?

Which type of plate boundary is this?

https://www.nps.gov/klgo/learn/nature/
geology.htm
NOW YOU TRY: Are there any other types of plate boundaries active i
our area? Think about the San Andreas fault.

Which way do the two plates move?

http://www.geologyin.com/2018/06/slow-
earthquakes-on-san-andreas-fault.html
What happened to the Santiago Peak Volcano?

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/LocationPhotoDire
ctLink-g32825-d269435-i45950668-
Irvine_Regional_Park-Orange_California.html
NOW YOU TRY CULMINATING QUESTION: Imagine that you have a
new friend who moved to Orange County from somewhere else.
How would you describe the geological history of Santiago Peak to
your new friend?

https://socalhiker.net/hiking-holy-jim-trail-to-
santiago-peak/