Assn. ____   Earth Processes                                                                                             Name________________

 

Plate tectonics operating over geologic time has changed the patterns of land, sea, and mountains on Earth's surface.  As the basis for understanding this concept students will know...

 

a) features of the ocean floor (magnetic patterns, age, and sea-floor topography) provide evidence of plate tectonics.

 

b) the principal structures that form at the three different kinds of plate boundaries.

 

c) how to explain the properties of rocks based on the physical and chemical conditions in which they formed, including plate tectonic processes.

 

d) why and how earthquakes occur and the scales used to measure their intensity and magnitude.

 

e) there are two kinds of volcanoes: one kind with violent eruptions producing steep slopes and the other kind with voluminous lava flows producing gentle slopes.

 

 

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