Plate Tectonics & Seafloor Spreading

A testable prediction

• Hypothesis

• magnetic reversal

• paleomagnetism

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Hypothesis that landmass was once together and spread apart

• Continental drift

• Pangaea

• paleomagnetism

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The name of the landmass was once together and spread apart

• Continental drift

• Pangaea

• paleomagnetism

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

A dark dense igneous rock found on the ocean floor

• Basalt

• Plate Boundaries

• seafloor spreading

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A device used to measure the Earth's magnetic field

• magnetic reversal

• magnetometer

• Isochron

A switch in the Earth's magnetic field

• magnetic reversal

• magnetometer

• Isochron

The study of the Earth's magnetic field

• magnetic reversal

• magnetometer

• Paleomagnetism

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-5

An imaginary line on a map that points the the age of the rock

• paleomagnetism

• Isochron

• Magnetometer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The process that creates new plates at the mid-ocean ridge

• Isochron

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The edge of tectonic plates

• seafloor spreading

• plate boundaries

• transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3