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The Structure of the Earth and Plate TectonicsTRANSCRIPT
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1. What might have made this huge crack?2. How could this crack (over time ) change the landscape of the Earth’s surface?
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Discovery Ed.
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The Structure of the Earth and Plate Tectonics
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Structure of the Earth• The Earth is
made up of 4 main layers:– Inner Core– Outer Core– Mantle– Crust
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The Crust• This is where we live!• It is thin, very hard and brittle• The Earth’s crust is divided
into two types.
Continental Crust- Forms the land-thick (10-70km)- buoyant (less dense than oceanic crust) - mostly old
Oceanic Crust- Ocean floor-thin (~7 km)- dense (sinks under continental crust)- young
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Label This
Continental Crust
Oceanic CrustOceanic Crust
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Sublevels Lithosphere – the crust and the very top of the mantle makes this zone of rigid, brittle rock
Asthenosphere – a layer of hot soft semi-rigid rock in the middle mantle thatflows
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Label This
Upper Mantle
Lower Mantle
Convection Currents
Lithosphere
AsthenosphereMiddle Mantle
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Vocab p. 38A
Definition Example
Sentence using Word
What it is not
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Inner Core
A hot solid ball ofmetal that is the Inner most part of the Earth.
Example
The inner core is the most dense layer of the Earth
Outer surfaceLiquidcold
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Warm Up• Get a Textbook and turn to page
15A. Look at the picture.
• What do you think the shaded area on the outline maps of South America and Africa represent?
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What is Plate Tectonics?
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Generally Speaking
The theory of plate tectonics explains how the Earth’s surface has changed over geologic time.
The Earth’s outer crust is made of plates of rock that continues to shift and collide resulting in earthquakes and volcanoes, mountain ranges, rift valleys, etc…
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What are the specifics of Plate Tectonics?
• The Earth’s crust is divided into 12 major plates which move in various directions.
• This plate motion causes them to collide, pull apart, or scrape against each other.
• Each type of interaction causes a characteristic set of Earth structures or “tectonic” features.
• The word, tectonic, refers to the deformation of the crust as a consequence of plate interaction.
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What causes the plates to move?
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How and Why do Tectonic Plates move around?
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What are convection currents?
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Plate Movement• “Plates” of lithosphere are moved around by
the underlying hot mantle convection cells. Hot magma rises and cools then fall back toward the core.
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What are tectonic plates made of?
What lies beneath the tectonic plates?
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What are tectonic plates made of?
• Plates are made of rigid lithosphere.
The lithosphere is made up of the crust and the upper part of the mantle.
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What lies beneath the tectonic plates?
• Below the lithosphere (which makes up the tectonic plates) is the asthenosphere.
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Where are the World Plates located?
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World Plates
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• If you look at a map of the world, you may notice that some of the continents could fit together like pieces of a puzzle.
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Warm Up• Read Evidence for Continental Drift on
pg.15A and answer the following:
1. List the 3 pieces of evidence used to prove continental drift?
2. Which evidence do you think is the most convincing and explain your answer?
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Practical Exercise 1
Supercontinents!
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• What are supercontinents?
• How do they form and how do they break apart?
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What are supercontinents? a landmass comprising more than one continental core, or craton. How do they form and how do they
break apart? Through continental collision fewer and
larger continents are formed while rifting makes more and smaller continents.
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What happens at tectonic plate boundaries?
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TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARIESType ofBoundary
Sketch ofBoundary
Direction ofMovement
Description/Features of Plate Boundary
Examples
DivergingPlateBoundary
TransformBoundary
ConversionBoundary***Collision
CollisionBoundary***Subduction
Ocean-Ocean
Ocean-Continent
Ocean-Ocean
Ocean-Continent
Ocean-Ocean
Ocean-Continent
Ocean-Ocean
Ocean-Continent
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Divergent Boundaries
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• Spreading ridges ex. Mid-ocean ridge– As plates move apart new material is erupted to fill the gap
Divergent Boundaries
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Three types of plate boundaryDivergent boundaries are where plates move away from each other
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• Iceland has a divergent plate boundary running through its middle
Iceland: An example of continental rifting
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Age of Oceanic Crust
Courtesy of www.ngdc.noaa.gov
Youngest Crust
Oldest Crust
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Transform Boundaries
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Transform Boundaries
The San Andreas fault, adjacent to which the US city of San Francisco is built is an example of a transform boundary between the Pacific plate and the North American plate.
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• Where plates slide past each otherTransform Boundaries
Above: View of the San Andreas transform fault
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Convergent Boundaries
the plates move towards each other
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• There are three styles of convergent plate boundaries– Continent-continent collision– Continent-oceanic crust collision– Ocean-ocean collision
Convergent Boundaries
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Continent-Continent Crust Collision
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• Forms mountains, e.g. European Alps, Himalayas
Continent-Continent Crust Collision
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Continent-Oceanic Crust Collision
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Occurs along Continent-Oceanic collision and Ocean-ocean collision•
SUBDUCTION Zones
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• Oceanic lithosphere subducts underneath the continental lithosphere
• Oceanic lithosphere heats and dehydrates as it subsides
• The melt rises forming volcanism
• E.g. The Andes
Subduction
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• When two oceanic plates collide, one runs over the other which causes it to sink into the mantle forming a subduction zone.
• The subducting plate is bent downward to form a very deep depression in the ocean floor called a trench.
• The worlds deepest parts of the ocean are found along trenches. – E.g. The Mariana Trench is 11 km deep!
Ocean-Ocean Plate Collision
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Ocean-ocean collision
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TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARIESType ofBoundary
Sketch ofBoundary
Direction ofMovement
Description/Features of Plate Boundary
Examples
DivergingPlateBoundary
plates move away from each other
Mid-Ocean Ridge
TransformBoundary
plates slide past each other
The San Andreas fault
ConversionBoundary***Collision
plates move towards each other
CollisionBoundary***Subduction
Ocean-Ocean
Ocean-Continent
Ocean-Ocean
Ocean-Continent
Ocean-Oceantwo oceanic plates collide one rolls on top while pushing the other into the mantelOcean-ContinentContinent plate collides with Oceanic plate. CP rolls on top of the more dense OP
Ocean-OceanMariana Trench
Ocean-Continentmany volcanoesAndes mountain
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• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
Three types of plate boundary
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Himalayas
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Practical Exercise 2
Where will the UK be in:1,000 years?1,000,000 years?1,000,000,000 years?
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…what’s the connection?
Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics…
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Volcanism is mostly focused at plate margins
Pacific Ring of Fire
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- Subduction - Rifting - Hotspots
Volcanoes are formed by:
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Pacific Ring of Fire
Hotspot volcanoes
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• Hot mantle plumes breaching the surface in the middle of a tectonic plate
What are Hotspot Volcanoes?
Photo: Tom Pfeiffer / www.volcanodiscovery.com
The Hawaiian island chain are examples of hotspot volcanoes.
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The tectonic plate moves over a fixed hotspot forming a chain of volcanoes.
The volcanoes get younger from one end to the other.
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• As with volcanoes, earthquakes are not randomly distributed over the globe
• At the boundaries between plates, friction causes them to stick together. When built up energy causes them to break, earthquakes occur.
Figure showing the distribution of earthquakes around the globe
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Where do earthquakes form?
Figure showing the tectonic setting of earthquakes
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Plate Tectonics Summary• The Earth is made up of 3 main layers (core,
mantle, crust)• On the surface of the Earth are tectonic
plates that slowly move around the globe• Plates are made of crust and upper mantle
(lithosphere)• There are 2 types of plate• There are 3 types of plate boundaries• Volcanoes and Earthquakes are closely
linked to the margins of the tectonic plates
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Structure of the Earth• The Earth is
made up of 4 main layers:– Inner Core– Outer Core– Mantle– Crust
Inner core
Outer core
Mantle
Crust
asthenosphere
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• Spreading ridges– As plates move apart new material is
erupted to fill the gap
Divergent Boundaries