Plate tectonics :Unit with Worksheets and Activities

This is a unit study on plate tectonics in geology or earth science subject. Attempt has been made to cover various points on different plate tectonics theories.

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The following topics are included in this Unit:

What are plate tectonics?
Lithosphere
Physical and thermal structure and sub layer of Earth
Two types of crust (or tectonics plates)
Major and Minor Tectonic Plates
Theory of plate tectonics & Convection currents and Plate movements
Types of plate boundaries:
Continental drift theory and Alfred Wegener
Pangea (all land mass)
Wegener’s Evidence for Continental Drift:

1. Fit of the Continents
2. Fossil Evidence
3. Rock Type and Structural Similarities
4. Climate Evidence
   Theory of Sea floor spreading
   Mid-Ocean ridge & Mid-Atlantic ridge:
   Harry Hess’s ideas on sea-floor spreading
   Evidence of sea floor spreading:
   1.Eruptions of molten material
   2.Magnetic stripes in the rock of the ocean floor
   3.The ages of the rocks themselves
   10-Worksheets and 4-activities

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