Earth Science Standard 3.a - Students know features of the ocean floor (magnetic patterns, age, and sea- floor topography) provide evidence of plate tectonics.

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Earth Science Standard 3.a - Students know features of the ocean floor (magnetic patterns, age, and seafloor topography) provide evidence of plate tectonics.

Matching Coastlines Similar Rock Types Similar Fossils Climatic Change

Proof for how the plates moved (Hess) new oceanic crust is created at the ridges and recycled at the trenches Evidence found at the bottom of the oceans Ridge Trench

Mid-Ocean ridge – underwater mountain system where the crust is lifted and pulled apart Trenches – narrow, steep sided depression that forms as one type of crust slides underneath another Continental slope – transition from continental crust to oceanic crust Continental shelf – submerged border of a continent

Ocean ridges are typically found in the ocean Trenches are found near the coastlines (continents)

1.Magma rises up to the ocean floor causing ocean crust to be pushed apart (RIDGE PUSH) 2.The magma rushes up and forms new crust. 3.Old crust pushed toward the trenches (continents). 4.At the trenches, cooler material pulls oceanic crust down into the mantle (SLAB PULL) 5.This subducted crust (crust that is pulled underneath another type of crust) is then recycled in the mantle.

Convection Currents in the mantle – Hot material rises and cooler material sinks

1.Age of Rock Rock at ridges = Youngest Rock at Trenches = Oldest Rock gets older in a predictable way

Age of the Sea Floor

2.Paleomagnetism When rock with iron/magnetite forms (cools), it traps a record of Earth’s magnetic field Earth’s magnetic field has reversed many times since its creation

Scientists discovered that the rock that makes up the ocean floor lies in a pattern of magnetized “stripes”. They hold a record of reversals in Earth’s magnetic field. Each mid-ocean ridge is lined by mirror-image patterns of magnetic field reversals.

Normal Polarity (+) = Today’s Polarity (N) Reversed Polarity (-) = South as North

How is this evidence? It shows that new seafloor is constantly being created. As new seafloor is formed, it slowly pushes the older seafloor towards the continents (trenches) where crust is recycled into the mantle or crumbled up to become part of the continents.

Include Convection Currents! Label the youngest rocks on the seafloor and the oldest!