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Title: Rocks


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Rocks
ROCKS
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What is a Rock?
  • Any solid mass of mineral or mineral-like matter
    that occurs naturally as part of our planet
  • 3 types
  • Igneous
  • Sedimentary
  • Metamorphic

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The Grand Canyon
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The Rock Cycle
  • Interactions among Earths water, air, land, and
    living things can cause rocks to change from one
    type to another
  • A continuous process

ROCK CYCLE VIDEO
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Plate Tectonics
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What is Continental Drift
  • Proposed by Alfred Wegener
  • Stated that the continents had once been joined
    to form a single supercontinent
  • Wegeners Theory
  • Pangaea broke apart 200 MY
  • Continents drifted
  • Continents broke through the oceans

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Evidence of Continental Drift
  • Shorelines look like they fit together
  • Fossil organisms found on different landmasses
  • Several mountain belts end at one coastline, only
    to reappear on a landmass across the ocean
  • Ancient Climates

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Matching Mountain Ranges
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Glacier Evidence
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The Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • Proposes that Earths outer shell consist of
    individual plates that interact in various ways
    and thereby produce earthquakes, volcanoes,
    mountains, and the crust itself

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Pangaea
  • Occurred 500 MY
  • Continents breakup begins 200 MY
  • North America and Africa split 135 MY

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Earths Major Plates
  • The lithosphere floats and moves along the mantle
  • Top 7 Plates Remaining Plates
  • African Arabian
  • Antarctic Caribbean
  • Eurasian Cocos
  • Australian-Indian Nazca
  • North American Philippine
  • Pacific Scotia
  • South American

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Exit Ticket
  • In your own words, explain plate tectonics.
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