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Plate Tectonics: Write this paper from the point of view of a science advisor to your country who is preparing a position paper forpresentation at the United Nations. Your audience is non-scientists who are unfamiliar with your country and challenges is faces. The focus of the paper is on geological hazards, with a strong focus on plate tectonics.
Plate tectonics has both global and local influences. You can pick from a number of possible problems about plate tectonics, but must address issues of how plate tectonics affects your Earth Summit country. The concentration is on using data from the class CDROM to argue for a particular plate tectonic model. You must also include specific information about your country that will be relevant to the effect of your plate tectonics model on your country. For example, a sparsely populated country may feel few effects, but a densely populated country with population concentrated around active volcanoes could be seriously affected. Be creative and think about what kinds of considerations you would have, given the facts of plate tectonics. The length of the paper will be 1000 to 1200 words (maximum). This is three to four double-spaced pages, not counting figures, captions and references. In order to adequately cover your topic, you will need to be concise. As a guideline, you could use the following approximate divisions of content: Content Guidelines:
Various lab section activities will prepare you for this writing assignment. Detailed instructions
for how to write this assignment can be found in "Anatomy
of a Science Paper"
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