1. EQ: What are the major tectonic plates of the world? Plate Tectonics Notes 28 Starter Paste Starter Here Plate Tectonics Notes 9/14/15 Application: Teacher Demo: Write observations here Connection: Can you find us? Map Exit: What results from the interaction of tectonic plates? Practice: Paste notes here 27

2. 1 Starter 2. Notes 3. Lab 4. Map 5. Exit 9/14/15 AGENDA Objective 6.10 C8.9A identify the major tectonic plates including Eurasian, African, Indo-Australian, Pacific, North American, and South America.

3. Date Lecture/ Activity/ Lab Page 8/28Syllabus /Notebook Guidelines1-2 8/28 Periodic Table/ Formula3-4 8/28 Language Scripts and Quickwrites 5-6 8/28 Lab Report/ Safety Equipment 7-8 8/31 Layers of the Earth Notes 9-10 9/1 Layers of the Earth Notes 11-12 9/2 Rocks 13-14 9/3 Igneous rock 15-16 9/4 Sedimentary Rock 17-18 9/8 Metamorphic Rock 19-20 9/9 Rock Cycle 21-22 9/10 Plate Tectonics Vocabulary 23-24 9/11 Test 25-26 9/14 Plate Tectonics Map 27-28 Table of Contents

4. PLATE TECTONICS

5. TEKS 8.9B relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features; TEKS 6.10C identify the major tectonic plates TEKS 6.10D describe how plate tectonics causes major geological events such as ocean basins, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building

6. Plate tectonics describes the means by which the ocean and continental crust are able to move and the results of that motion. What is Plate Tectonics?

7. Key plates: Eurasian African Indo-Australian The crust of Earth is divided into plates. Pacific Nazca North American South American

8. The plates are rigid and in constant motion relative to one another.

9. What Causes the Tectonic Plates to Move?

10. Intense heat from the core of the Earth causes convection cells to form in the asthenosphere.

11. The Earth’s continental and oceanic plates sit on the hot asthenosphere. While the rock in the asthenosphere is solid, it is less rigid than the plates, and therefore moves.

12. While scientists do not fully understand the forces that move the plates, it is believed that the moving material in the asthenosphere drags the plates along.

13. What Are the Results of Tectonic Plate Motion?

14. Each plate moves as a distinct unit. The borders between plates are called plate boundaries.

15. There are three different kinds of motion that occurs between the tectonic plates. Divergent Plate Boundary Transform Plate Boundary

16. Even though the motion of the plates is very slow; about 10- 40 mm/year (this is about how fast your fingernails grow), the motion causes major geologic events and surface features. I can out run the tectonic plates!

17. TRANSFORM Motion: plates grind past one another Geologic Event: earthquakes Surface Feature: faults

18. San Andreas Fault Click here!

19. DIVERGENT Motion: plates move away from one another Geologic Event: new crust is formed shallow earthquakes Surface Feature: Rifts Rift valleys Volcanic islands mid- ocean ridge

20. rift valley Mid-Atlantic Ridge Click here!

21. CONVERGENT Motion: plates move toward from one another Geologic Event: crust material is destroyed earthquakes volcanic eruptions mountain building

22. CONVERGENT Surface Features: volcanoes Island arcs Volcanic arcs Trenches Mountain ranges

23. Mount Saint Helens Click here!

24. The Himalayan Mountains Click here!

26. EQ: What are the major tectonic plates of the world? Plate Tectonics Notes 28 Starter Paste Starter Here Plate Tectonics Notes 9/14/15 Application: Teacher Demo: Write observations here Connection: Can you find us? Map Exit: What results from the interaction of tectonic plates? Practice: Paste notes here 27