Plate Tectonics: Earth’s Surface Is Dramatically Reshaping .
Plate Tectonic MovementsName: Period: Date:EQ: How is Earth’s crust changed by plate movements?Plate Tectonics: Welcome to the greatest show on Earth. Propelled by intense heat simmering beneath the crust or themantle, Earth’s surface is dramatically reshaping itself in an endless, slow-motion movement called plate tectonics.Tectonic plates or huge slabs of solid rocks separate, collide, and slide past each other causing earthquakes, feedingvolcanic eruptions, and raising mountains. Scientists now have a fairly good understanding of how the plates move andhow such movements relate to earthquake activity. Most movement occurs along narrow zones between plates, plateboundaries, where the results of plate-tectonic forces are most evident.Types of plate boundaries:1.2.3.Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the platespull away or separates from each other.Examples: mid ocean ridge, rift valleysConvergent boundaries -- where crust come together. One crust isdestroyed as it dives under another, known as subduction.Examples: subduction, Marianas trench, mountains, volcanoesTransform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nordestroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other. Example:San Andreas faultPlates Move Apart: Divergent BoundaryAtlantic ocean, along a global system of mountain ridges, Earth’splates are growing and spreading apart. Each year these oceanicspreading ridges erupt more than three times as much molten rock asdo all the volcanoes on land. Magma rises from Earth’s mantle atspreading ridges and cools on and beneath the ocean floor, adding tothe plates on either side. The growing plates inch away from theridges—widening ocean basins and rafting apart entire continents.Plates Come Together: Convergent BoundaryWhere plates come together, or converge, we see some dramatic manifestations ofplate tectonics. At convergent margins, continents grow as plates are consumed.Three types of Convergent Boundaries1. Convergent boundary between continental and oceanic crust results tosubduction, volcanoes, and trenches.2. Convergent boundary between two oceanic crust results to subduction, and thetrenches formed are deeper like the Marianas Trench, which can sink Mt. Everest.3. Convergent boundary between two continental crust results to building up therocks forming mountains like the Appalachian and Himalayas mountain ranges.
Plates Pass By: Transform BoundaryWhy do earthquakes shake California? Thestate straddles two plates that are moving pasteach other like trains on opposite tracks. Theplate boundary is marked by a zone of activefaults—breaks in the rock and ground surfacecaused by plate movements. The most famousof these is the 1200-km (750-mi) long SanAndreas Fault. The San Andreas fault is a transform fault, a kind common on thesea floor but rarely found on land.Clarifying Questions:1. What is plate tectonics?2. How is the earth’s surface affected by the movement of the tectonic plates?3. Where do most movements happen in the Earth’s crust?4. What are three types of plate boundaries?5. Matching type: Plate BoundariesConvergent boundarya. Mid-ocean ridges, rift valleysDivergent boundaryb. Fault linesTransform boundaryc. Subduction, trench, mountains, volcanoes6.Matching type: Plate BoundariesConvergent boundaryDivergent boundaryTransform boundarya. Tectonic plates move apart.b. Tectonic plates come together.c. Tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other.7. Matching type: Plate BoundariesConvergent boundaryDivergent boundaryTransform boundarya. Himalayas and the Appalachian mountain rangesb. San Andreas Faultc. Atlantic mid ocean ridge, African rift valley8. Matching type: Convergent boundariesContinental to oceanicOceanic to oceanicContinental to continentala. Subduction, volcanoes, and trenchesb. Subduction, deeper trenches, volcanoesc. Mountain ranges like the Appalachian and Himalayas9. Why do earthquakes shake California?10. What is the San Andreas Fault?11. Identify and illustrate the movements of the different types of plate boundaries Use arrows to indicate directions.R. Angat
Matching Type Key:12. Matching type: Plate BoundariesC Convergent boundaryA Divergent boundaryB Transform boundarya. mid ocean ridges, rift valleysb. fault linesc. subduction, trench, mountains, volcanoes13. Matching type: Plate BoundariesB Convergent boundaryA Divergent boundaryC Transform boundarya. tectonic plates move apartb. tectonic plates come togetherc. tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other14. Matching type: Plate BoundariesA Convergent boundaryC Divergent boundaryB Transform boundarya. Himalayas and the Appalachian mountain rangesb. San Andreas faultc. Atlantic mid ocean ridge, African rift valley15. Matching type: Convergent boundariesA Continental to oceanicB Oceanic to oceanicC Continental to continentala. subduction, volcanoes, and trenchesb. subduction, deeper trenches, volcanoesc. mountain ranges like the Appalachian and 4 0 .weebly.com/movement-of-the-tectonic-plates.html
Matching type: Plate Boundaries _ Convergent boundary a. Himalayas and the Appalachian mountain ranges _ Divergent boundary b. San Andreas Fault _ Transform boundary c. Atlantic mid ocean ridge, African rift valley 8. Matching type: Convergent boundaries _Continental to oceanic a. Subduction, volcanoes, and trenches
Earth: Portrait of a Planet, 3rd edition, by Stephen Marshak Chapter 4: The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics Locations on Earth where tectonic plates meet. Identified by concentrations of earthquakes. Associated with many other dynamic phenomena. Plate interiors are almost earthquake-free. Plate Boundaries
Aug 26, 2015 · Continental Drift, Sea Floor Spreading and Plate Tectonics Plate Tectonics is a theory developed in the late 1960s, to explain how the outer layers of the Earth move and deform. The theory has caused a revolution in the way we think about the Earth. Since the development of the theory, ge
The physical theory of plate tectonics thus has important applications to planetary habitability and the origins of life in the universe (e.g., Korenaga 2012). However, if we do not have a theory to explain why plate tectonics initiated on Earth and how it evolved with time, we cannot apply our understanding to other planets under
11. What is the theory of plate tectonics? Chapters 8, 9, and 10 Earth’s Structure and Plate Tectonics Earth’s surface is broken into plates that move slowly relative to one another The process of new ocean floor forming along Earth’s mid-ocea
Plate Tectonics Plate tectonics is the unifying theory of geology and revolutionized geology cornerstone of Earth-system approach; explains connections between seemingly unrelated geologic phenomena permits Earth's history to be viewed as series of interrelated events. explains how plate interactions determine locations of continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, and thus
CVR Odometer and Plate Type Updates - EVR Policies . Plate Types . Plate Type . Plate Types. There are select plates that can now be issued as a new plate through EVR. Just like it works for special plates on EVR, these plate types will go through the . Centralized Plate Distribution Process. You will select the plate type during a New Plate .
Earth: Portrait of a Planet, 3rd edition, by Stephen Marshak Chapter 4: The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics Ocean Crustal Age Oceanic crust spreads away from the ridge axis. New crust is closer to the ridge; older crust farther away. Oldest oceanic crust is found at the far edge of the basin.
Plate Tectonics. Use the following link to find these answers: . an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate. Oceanic crust tends to be _ and _ than continental crust, so the denser . Part V. Questions you should be able to answer now that you completed this webquest. Note - you may go back to the website and review to assist .
Lesson Plan Lesson Preparation Review the Science Background provided in the Unit Overview. Review and make copies of Student Reading Plate Tectonics Diagrams and Student Worksheet Plate Tectonic Drawings, one per student. Preview PowerPoint Tectonic Plate Boundaries and make arrangements to project it. Preview video clips from the College of Exploration on Plate Tectonics and .
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Plate Tectonics Web-Quest Part I: Earth's Structure. Use the following link to find these answers: . My score for Plate Interactions Challenge _ My score for Test Skills questions _ out of 30 or _ %_ . Part V. Questions you should be able to answer now that you completed this webquest. Note - you may go back to the .
The formulation and eventual acceptance of the theory of plate tec-tonics in the late 1960s was a monumental turning point for science, which has forever changed the way that we think about the Earth and other extraterrestrial rocky bodies. Amongst other key criteria, the op-eration of plate tectonics is thought to be a necessary condition for the
Basic Plate Tectonics Throughout Earth's history the surface features have been slowly changing. Vulcanism, earthquakes and weather have been three of the driving forces. But, the biggest driving force, and a cause of some of the other three, has been Plate Tectonics. In 1915, Alfred Wegener, a German geologist,
iii BrieF ContentS 1 Introduction to Earth Science 3 unit one eArth MAteriALS 32 2 Matter and Minerals 33 3 Rocks: Materials of the Solid Earth 59 unit tWo SCuLpting eArth’S SurFACe 94 4 Weathering, Soil, and Mass Wasting 95 5 Running Water and Groundwater 131 6 Glaciers, Deserts, and Wind 171 unit three ForCeS Within 208 7 Plate Tectonics: A Scientific .
dynamics. "A key to the simplicity of plate tectonics is that the strength of lithospheric plates enables the analysis of their kinematics to be isolated and treated separately from the dynamic processes controlling plate motions; relative velocities of plates can be analysed without reference to the forces that give rise to them"34.
T ea c h er B a c k g r ou n d The theory of plate tectonics is a relatively new scientific concept. While its forerunner—the theory of continental drift—had its inception as early as the late 16th century, plate tectonics only emerged and matured as a widely accepted theory since the 1960s (see This Dynamic Earth booklet).
Plate Tectonics and Landforms . Rock Cycle Igneous: formed through cooling and solidification of magma or lava Metamorphic: transformation of an existing rock through heat and pressure Sedimentary: formed through deposition and cementation of weathered rock pro
Holt McDougal Earth Science 147 Plate Tectonics Name Class Date Summarize After you read this section, create a concept map that uses all the vocabu-lary terms. READING TOOLBOX 1. Identify What are the parts of the lithosphere? READING
recreate plate tectonics. OPTION 2: Complete webquest part 1&2 on ClassDojo REMINDER: Rock Cycle is due! Vocabulary-continental drift-Pangaea-fossils-plate tectonics-rocks-minerals-Earth’s crust-continental Upload it to ClassDojo DUE: Friday, Nov. 6th
recreate plate tectonics. OPTION 2: Complete webquest part 1&2 on ClassDojo REMINDER: Rock Cycle is due! Vocabulary-continental drift-Pangaea-fossils-plate tectonics-rocks-minerals-Earth’s crust-continental Upload it to ClassDojo DUE: Friday, Nov. 6th
