DYNAMIC EARTH! OUR TECTONIC PLATES IN ACTION · WHY DO PLATES MOVE? •Plate movement starts in the...
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DYNAMIC EARTH!
OUR TECTONIC PLATES IN ACTIONPlate movement – 8.9B relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features
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STUDENT SUCCESS STATEMENTS:
• 8.9B relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features
• Students will be able to:• Know the names and locations of major tectonic
plates
• Identify each type of boundary interaction
• List what types of events happen at these boundaries
• Name real-world examples of these events
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A NOTE ABOUT THE NOTES!
• What you need to write will not be in red.
• You should be reading and then summarizing or abbreviating you see from the screen to your page.
• You can always go back and look at my website online
• Be sure to ACTIVELY take notes, engage with the material!
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• Earth’s lithospheric layer, the crust, is broken into large pieces, which we call “plates”
TECTONIC PLATES – WHAT ARE THEY?
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• Plate movement result in stress within the Earth’s crust which adds energy to rock until the rock either breaks or changes shape
PLATE MOVEMENT
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WHY DO PLATES MOVE?
• Plate movement starts in the core
• The heat from the core radiates upward to the mantle layer known as the asthenosphere.
• The asthenosphere turns to molten rock and can flow like a liquid, this is known as plasticity
• The pieces of the crust, the tectonic plates, float on the asthenosphere
• When the asthenosphere moves, the plates move too.
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LABEL THE PLATES – START WITH THE OBVIOUS ONES…
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LABEL THE PLATES YOU DON’T KNOW:
North AmericanPlate
Eurasian Plate
PacificPlate
PacificPlateAfrican
Plate
South AmericanPlate
NazcaPlate
AustralianPlate
CocosPlate
CaribbeanPlate
North AmericanPlate
IndianPlate
ArabianPlate
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NEWTON’S LAWS:
• Write a quick definition of Newton’s 2nd law.
• Now, explain the relationship between force, mass and acceleration. If you need a reminder, look at Newton’s 2nd law notes.
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• Plates apply equal and opposite forces on each other. (A push or pull, shown by )
• The acceleration of the plate depends on forces acting on the plate and the mass of the plate.
PLATES AND FORCES(AND NEWTON’S LAWS)
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EFFECTS OF PLATE TECTONICS
*There are several geological processes that occur where plates meet (at the plate edges):
1. Volcanoes tend to erupt at plate margins as a result of a process called subduction
2. Earthquakes occur where plates grind against or over one another
3. Mountain building occurs as one plate is pushed over another
4. Seafloor spreading occurs where two oceanic plates pull apart, makes ocean basins
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THE 3 TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARIES
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CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES• Convergent Boundaries are the boundaries between two
plates that are converging, or moving towards each other.
• Earthquakes, island formation, mountain forming, and volcanoes all occur as the result of these plate collisions.
• The type of stress at this boundary is “compression”• When two plates collide (converge) one plate moves under
the other.This process is called “subduction.”
• There are three types of convergent boundaries
“Convergent, means to come together.”
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TYPES OF CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES – HOW TO FILL IN THE CHART:
Name of Boundary #1Put the responses for 1,
2, 3 here
Name of Boundary #2Put the responses for 1,
2, 3 here
Name of Boundary #3Put the responses for 1,
2, 3 here
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1. What occurs: subduction.
The denser oceanic plate sinks
beneath the less dense one
Older plates are denser
because they are cooler
So, the older plate gets pushed
below the younger aged plate
Boundary Type #1 – Oceanic to Oceanic:
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2. What is formed: volcanic island arcs and ocean trenches
3. Examples: Japanese islands, Alaskan (Aleutian) islands and deepest
trench in the world, the Marianas Trench
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Mariana Trench
The most famous trench in the world:
If link doesn’t work, find it on teacher website for this lesson
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Oceanic plate and a continental plate.
1. What occurs: subduction of one plate -
the denser oceanic plate subducts
beneath the less dense continental
plate.
As the oceanic plate sinks, it gets hotter
and melts. Magma rises up through cracks
and over time a chain of volcanic
mountains is formed
2. What is formed: Continental volcanic
arc – which makes mountains.
Boundary Type #2 – Oceanic to Continental
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Oceanic plate and
a continental plate.
3. Examples: Andes
Mts (coast of Brazil)
Cascade Mountains
(Washington State)
Convergent Boundary Type 2:
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FORMATION OF THE ANDES MTS.
• Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRo-anVCC4I
• If link doesn’t work, find it on this lesson on the website
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Continental-Continental
Convergent Boundary (also
called a Collisional Boundary)
1. What occurs: Plates
compress and fold
Continental plates are light, so
they resist downward motion.
So, plates tend to pushed up by
compression and fold and fault
BOUNDARY TYPE #3 – CONTINENTAL TO CONTINENTAL:
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2. Forms folded mountains
- The convergent
boundary of the Eurasian
and Indian Plates has
resulted in the formation
of the highest mountain
range in the world – The
Himalayas Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the
world, at over 29,000 ft. and is part of the
Himalayas. This is a result of the Eurasian
and Indian Plates colliding and it is still
getting higher as these two plates continue
to collide.
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This illustration shows
the movement of the
land mass known as
India today. As it moved
on the Indian plate through
time, over millions of years,
it finally collided with the
Eurasian plate forming the
Himalayan Mountains
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Satellite view of the Himalayan Mts.
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DIVERGENT BOUNDARIES
• Divergent Boundaries are boundaries between two plates that are diverging, or moving away from each other.
• The type of stress is “tension”
“Divergent, means to spread apart.”
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When plates are spreading apart from one another there is a lot of
geological activity. Earthquakes and volcanoes can occur here.
•In some places like in East Africa, a rift valley can form that is
hundreds of feet deep.
•Africa’s Rift Valley:
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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is one of the
world’s largest divergent plates,
running North to South in just about
the center of the Atlantic Ocean.
All along this ridge, volcanic activity
takes place and the sea floor is
spreading East and West at a rate of
1.25 cm per year.
Question: So what is happening on the
other side of that same plate?
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MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
• Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgDM6m0lUGY
• If link doesn’t work, find the video on the lesson on teacher’swebsite
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TRANSFORM FAULT BOUNDARIES
• Transform Boundaries are the boundaries between two plates that are sliding horizontally past one another.
• The type of stress is “shear-stress” and occurs when plates move past one another
“Transform, means to slide
past one another.”
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PLATES MOVE SIDE BY SIDE
• Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust.
• Rather, two plates move against each other, rocks on either side strain against each other causing breaks
• When rocks suddenly break along the faults, earthquakes occur.
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There is a transform-fault boundary where the North American and Pacific
plates are moving past each other.
This is the: San Andreas fault in California
An example of Strike Slip Faults
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The San Andreas Fault, seen
here, is the result of the Pacific
Plate sliding past the North
American Plate. This is the site
of many of the earthquakes that
occur in the United States
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• Plate movement alters the Earth and produces changes in Earth’s surface by…
• Deformation of the crust
• Faults
• Mountain building
• Land subsidence (lands sinks)
• Volcanoes – at edges of plates but can also occur away from plate boundaries!
CHANGING EARTH’S SURFACE
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• There are more than 600 active volcanoes on land and many more beneath the sea
• Volcanic belts form along the boundaries of Earth’s plates.
• One major volcanic belt is the Ring of Fire (edges of Pacific plate)
LOCATION OF VOLCANOES
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VOLCANOES AT PLATE EDGES• There are a lot of volcanoes along the edge of the Pacific
because of subduction, where oceanic plates dive under continental (or other oceanic) plates
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• A volcano is a weak spot in the crust where molten, rock-forming magma comes to the surface
• Some chains of volcanic islands, such as the Hawaiian islands, form away from tectonic plate activity.
VOLCANOES – NOT ON PLATE EDGES
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• All seismic activity occurs along plate boundaries (except for hotspots)
• Magma rises through the mantle forming an active volcano
• The plate moves over
this spot forming a
chain of islands with
the active volcano
being the one over
the hot spot
WHAT ARE HOT SPOTS?
Hot Spot Volcanoes
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• Go back to the teacher’s website and find the link for the webquest.
• Follow the questions and it will lead you through the online activities.
• When is this due??
WEB-QUEST!