Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions
HS-ESS2.B
Expii topics
- Plate Tectonics
- What Is the Evidence for Pangaea (Supercontinent)?
- What Was Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory?
- Sonar Use in Continental Drift Theory
- Sea-Floor Spreading
- Paleomagnetism
- What Is Paleomagnetism?
- Matching Strips of Magnetism on Both Sides of the MOR
- Earthquake Patterns
- Age of Ocean Floor (Relatively Young Basalt)
- What Causes the Plates to Move?
- Mantle Convection
- Slab-Pull
- Ridge-Push
- What Is Plate Tectonic Theory?
- Types of Plate Boundaries
- Convergent Plate Boundaries
- What Is a Convergent Plate Boundary?
- What Is Subduction?
- Types of Convergent Plate Collisions
- Oceanic to Continental Plate Collision
- Oceanic to Oceanic Plate Collision
- Continental to Continental Plate Collision
- Divergent Plate Boundaries
- What Is a Divergent Plate Boundary?
- What Is the Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR)?
- What Are Rift Valleys?
- Volcanoes
- What Is the 'Ring of Fire'?
- What Causes Rock to Melt?
- How Heat Melts Rock
- Decompression Melting (Role of Pressure)
- Role of Water: Wet vs. Dry Rock
- Role of Friction in Melting
- How Do Volcanoes Form?
- Composite Volcano/Stratocone
- Volcanic Island Arcs
- Continental Volcanic Arcs
- Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcanism
- What Is a Hotspot?
- Earthquakes
- What Is an Earthquake?
- What Is a Fault Line?
- What Is Elastic Rebound?
- Types of Tectonic Plates and Plate Boundaries
- Evidence for Sea-Floor Spreading
- Development of Plate Tectonic Theory
- Volcanoes at Divergent Plate Boundaries
- Volcanoes at Convergent Plate Boundaries
- Rift Valley Volcanism
- Type of Faults
- Faults
- Strike-Slip Fault
- Normal Fault
- Thurst (Reverse) Fault
- How Do Mountains Form?
- Mechanism of Volcano Formation at Subduction Zones
- Ocean Geology
- Ocean Floor Features
- Seamounts and Guyots
- Abyssal Plain
- Hydrothermal Vents
- Deep Ocean Trenches
- Mid-Ocean Ridge System
- How Is the Ocean Floor Mapped?
- Continental Shelves and Slopes
- Active vs. Passive Continental Margins
- Submarine Canyons