Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions
MS-ESS2.B
Expii topics
- How Are Igneous Rocks Formed?
- Metamorphic Processes
- What Are the Forces That Drive the Rock Cycle?
- Transition to an Igneous Rock
- Transition to a Metamorphic Rock
- What Are Fossils?
- Types of Fossils
- Plate Tectonics
- What Is the Evidence for Pangaea (Supercontinent)?
- Continents Fit Together like Puzzle Pieces
- Matching Mountains/Rock Types on Coasts of Continents
- Matching Fossils on Coasts of Continents
- Glacial Till in Tropics (Ancient Climates)
- What Was Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory?
- Sonar Use in Continental Drift Theory
- Sea-Floor Spreading
- What Is 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 Tectonic Plates
- Continental Plates
- Oceanic Plates
- 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?
- Shield Volcano
- Composite Volcano/Stratocone
- Types of Basaltic Lava Flows
- Features of Volcanoes
- Volcanic Island Arcs
- Continental Volcanic Arcs
- Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcanism
- What Is a Hotspot?
- Earthquakes
- What Is an Earthquake?
- 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
- How Do Mountains Form?
- Mechanism of Volcano Formation at Subduction Zones
- Tsunamis