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Plate Tectonics

 

SPI 0707.7.5   Recognize that lithospheric plates on the scale of continents and oceans continually move at rates of centimeters per year.

SPI 0707.7.6   Describe the relationship between plate movements and earthquakes, mountain building, volcanoes, and sea floor spreading.

 

 

Click on the link to the right to 

see the PowerPoint we use

in class.

This Dynamic Earth

 

Click on the picture to go to an online book from the USGA (United States Geological Survey). This file has lots of great information about plate tectonics. There is information about how the theory of plate tectonics was developed, along with lots of illustrations to help you understand. It is a little bit of a read, but the information is great.

 

Take a few minutes and at least click on all the different chapters and see what interests you.  You might learn a thing or two!!!

Continental Drift: Alfred Wegener Song by The Amoeba People

 

Click on the picture to watch and listen to a fantastic song about Alfred Wegener.  Who is Alfred Wegener you ask???  Well, listen to the song and you will know who he is. I have to warn you though. You listen to this song and you will be singing it for the rest of the day and possibly longer than that!!!

 

The Amoeba People present "The Posthumous Triumph of Alfred Wegener", the sad but true story of a scientist and his hypothesis.

Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker

 

Click on the picture to go to an interactive website from PBS.  You will learn about the different types of plate boundaries and how they move.  You will also be able to manipulate the plate boundaries and see what they do in an animation. The topics include:

 

  • Intro to Plate Tectonic Theory

  • The Sea Floor Spread

  • The Continental Slide

  • The Continental Crush

  • Slippin' and a Slidin'

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