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Earth Patterns at the Breakfast Nook

Compare mountains, volcanoes, and earthquake locations on practice maps. Use a summary table to test claims about geographic patterns.

Grade 4ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to4-ESS2-2

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students compare maps to identify patterns in mountain, volcano, and earthquake locations.
Students use map locations and a data table to support claims and identify exceptions.
Students predict where a mapped feature pattern might continue.

How to use

Review the map directions and key together. Keep all three maps visible as students check the summary table and support their claims.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

4-ESS2-2

Read maps to find patterns in Earth's features, such as mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes.

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Earth Patterns at the Breakfast Nook

Compare feature maps and a data table at a kitchen map-puzzle station.

Open the Kitchen Map Puzzle

Read about the puzzle. Compare the mountain and volcano maps. Choose one answer unless the question says otherwise.

A Map Station in the Breakfast Nook

The kitchen breakfast nook has become a weekend map-puzzle station. Nia places three map cards in a clear tray beside the napkin holder. The cards show an imaginary region called Bellora. One card marks mountains, another marks volcanoes, and the third marks places where earthquakes were recorded. The locations are made up, but the puzzle practices comparing features in the way scientists compare real maps.

Each card shows the same square region from above. The cards have matching scales and directions. North is toward the top, south is toward the bottom, east is right, and west is left. Each numbered step represents the same distance. Read a position by using the eastward number first and the northward number second. For example, (6, 2) means 6 steps east and 2 steps north.

The map key uses M for a mountain, V for a volcano, and E for a recorded earthquake location. Numbers after the letters identify individual marks. A mountain rises above nearby land. A volcano marks a place where melted rock has reached Earth's surface. An earthquake mark identifies a place where ground shaking was recorded during the study year. A place receives one earthquake mark even if shaking happened there several times.

Nia also makes a summary table for the tray. The northern zone has northward positions from 5 through 8. The middle zone has northward position 4. The southern zone has northward positions from 0 through 3. The table counts symbols of each kind, not separate places or shaking events. To check a claim, compare both the table and the locations on the cards.

Mountain map — Each M marks a mountain location.