Essential Questions:
- What causes Tectonic Plates to move?
- How did scientists figure out that the earth is covered by rigid lithospheric plates?
Enduring Understanding:
- Tectonic Plates move due to the creation/destruction of sea floor AND because of convection currents in the upper mantle.
Reference Materials/Assignments:
Questions/Understandings/Pre-conception Survey
Plate Tectonics Survey002.pdf
This USGS publication includes EVERYTHING you need to understand about the topic.
Online Edition of "This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics"
It is divided into 7 sections:
- Preface
- Historical Perspective
- Developing the Theory
- Understanding Plate Motions
- Hot Spots: Mantle Thermal Plumes
- Some Unanswered Questions
- Plate Tectonics and People
Continental Drift + Seafloor Spreading= Plate Tectonics!!!
Continental Drift Evidence Assignment.pdf
For students: "Background Information," "Analyzing Evidence," and "Writing Frame" pages
Continental Drift Map Assignment.pdf
Worksheets are the last 4 pages of the file
The Earth's Magnetic Field "Flipping" Out
Seafloor Spreading Background Information.pdf
Seafloor Spreading Background
Seafloor Spreading Class Lab.doc
Animations:
Seafloor Spreading Animation
Seafloor Spreading Online Animation
Earth-Mantle Convection
Geologic Time and Continental Locations
Lonks:
The Paleomap Project: illustrating the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
The Geologic History of the Northeastern United States
Brief Geologic History of Vermont.pdf
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