Chapter 4 Plate Tectonics - STEM & Broadcasting
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Chapter 4 Plate Tectonics
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Continental Drift
Continents were
once joined
together in a
supercontinent
called Pangaea
and have since
moved away from
one another
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650 Million Years in under 2 minutes
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Continental Drift - Evidence
1. Similarity in shape of continents
2. Presence of fossils on now widely separated continents
3. Presence of glacial deposits on continents now found near the equator
4. The similarity of rock sequences on different continents.
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Continental Drift - Evidence
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Earth’s Magnetic Field
Normal Polarity and Reversed Polarity
The physical Earth does not move or
change its direction of rotation.
Alternating bands of rocks recording
normal and reversed polarity are arranged
symmetrically about mid-ocean ridges.
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Sea-Floor Spreading
Hypothesis: Basaltic magma from the mantle rises to create new ocean floor
at mid-ocean ridges.
Sea floor moves from the ridge towards the deep-sea trenches.
It is then subducted and recycled
back into the mantle.
The test: Studies of Earth’s magnetism
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Sea-Floor Spreading
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Sea-Floor Spreading
http://science.discovery.com/tv-
shows/greatest-discoveries/videos/100-
greatest-discoveries-sea-floor-
spreading.htm
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Chapter 4 Section 1 Review
What observation first led to Wegener’s
hypothesis of continental drift?
The first observation that led to hypothesis
of continental drift was the similarity
between coastlines of continents on
either side of the Atlantic
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Chapter 4 Section 1 Review
What types of evidence support
Wegener’s hypothesis?
The following are types of evidence that
support the continental drift hypothesis:
Fossil, geological, paleomagnetic, and
climatic evidence.
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Chapter 4 Section 1 Review
Describe the process of seafloor spreading.
The oceanic crust is slowly moving away from both sides of mid-ocean ridges. The crust is replaced by magma that moves up from the rift valleys in the centers of the ridges, cools and solidifies, and then moves away from the rifts.
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Chapter 4 Section 1 Review Explain how scientists know that the
earth’s magnetic poles have reversed themselves many times during earth’s history.
They have observed normal and reversed magnetic polarity in rocks on land and on the ocean floor. Dating the rocks verifies that they fall into alternating periods of normal and reversed polarity.
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The Earth’s Layers
Crust, mantle and core
Lithosphere
Outer 100 km
Rigid layer
Crust & uppermost mantle
Broken into a small # of plates that move
over the asthenosphere.
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The Earth’s Layers
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The Earth’s Layers
Asthenosphere
A plastic layer in the upper mantle
Plate movement is caused by
Convection Currents in the mantle
Plates are moving at an average of a few cm/year.
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The Earth’s Plates
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Convection Currents
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Convection Currents
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How Plates Move: Convection Currents
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How Plates Move: Convection Currents
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Types of Plate Boundaries
Convergent Boundary
Plates collide or come together.
Divergent Boundary
2 plates move apart.
New crust is formed.
Transform Boundary
Plates slide past one another.
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Types of Boundaries
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Divergent Boundary Arabian & African Plates
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Divergent Boundary
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Transform Boundary San Andreas Fault
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Transform Boundary
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Convergent Boundary Indian & Eurasian Plates
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The Ocean Floor
Variety of topographic features:
Flat plains, long mountain chains, and deep trenches
Mid-ocean Ridge
Longest mountain chain on Earth
Divergent Boundaries
Upwelling of magma from mantle creates new ocean floor
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The Ocean Floor
Deep-sea trenches
Long, narrow basins
Develop adjacent to subduction zones.
Subduction Zones
Areas where oceanic crust slides back into the mantle.
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Subduction Zones
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Chapter 4 Section 2 Review
Summarize the theory of plate tectonics.
Plate tectonics proposes that the earth’s
crust consists of about 30 plates with both
oceanic and continental crust that ride
on the asthenosphere and are moved by
convection currents.
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Chapter 4 Section 2 Review
Name and describe the three major types
of plate boundaries.
Two plates moving apart form a divergent
boundary. The direct collision of two
plates forms a convergent boundary. A
transform boundary forms where plates
slide past each other.
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Chapter 4 Section 2 Review Describe the 3 types of plate collisions
that occur along convergent boundaries.
A collision between a continental crust plate and a oceanic crust plate
A collision between 2 plates with continental crust
A collision between 2 plates with oceanic crust
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Chapter 4 Section 2 Review
How might convection currents cause plate movement?
Convection currents cause plate movement when the cold, dense lithosphere sinks which pulls the plates. Where the plates pull apart, hot asthenosphere rises.