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Performance Task-Fault Model

This document provides instructions for creating a fault model to demonstrate key concepts about earthquakes. Students will cut and assemble a model that shows how the focus and epicenter are related, with the focus being underground at the origin point of the earthquake and the epicenter being where the vertical line from the focus intersects the surface. When the model is pulled apart, it displays the fault plane where slippage occurs along the fault during an earthquake.

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Performance Task-Fault Model

This document provides instructions for creating a fault model to demonstrate key concepts about earthquakes. Students will cut and assemble a model that shows how the focus and epicenter are related, with the focus being underground at the origin point of the earthquake and the epicenter being where the vertical line from the focus intersects the surface. When the model is pulled apart, it displays the fault plane where slippage occurs along the fault during an earthquake.

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Bernadette L. Macadangdang
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PERFORMANCE TASK: FAULT MODEL MAKING

Objectives:
After performing this activity, you should be able to:
1. differentiate between focus and epicenter; and
2.demonstrate how movement along faults affect the surroundings.

Materials Needed:
fault model, scissors, paste, hard/card board or folder

Procedure:
1. Photocopy the Fault Model (Figure 12; you can also trace it on paper). Then cut along
the outlines of the two drawings. Paste on a card/hard board or folder.

2. Fold along the lines and paste where indicated. In the end, you should have a model
consisting of two parts that fit together (Figure 13).

3. The upper surface of the model represents the surface of the Earth. The trace of the
fault on the surface of the Earth is called the fault line.

4. Pull the two pieces apart (Figure 14). The flat surface between the two pieces is called
the fault plane. This is where fault slip or fault movement happens.

5. The place where the fault begins to slip is called the focus. It is where the first
movement occurs. Thus, the focus is the origin of the earthquake.

6. Put the two pieces of the model together. The focus is now hidden “underground.”
Now, imagine a vertical line from the focus to the upper surface of the model. Mark the
place where you expect the line to come out.

Sample Product/Output

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