Guided Notes: Plate Tectonics

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1. Essential Question: What is the theory of ____________________ and what _____________ do we have to support it?

2. ___________________ is the unifying theory that explains the past and ________ movements of the rocks at Earths surface and provides an account of

its ________history.

3. The _______ move across Earths surface, carrying the __________, _________and destroying ocean basins, ________ earthquakes and volcanoes, and

___________ mountain ranges and plateaus.

Listen and respond:

4. What evidence from looking at the figure suggests that the continents were together at one point?
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5. Clarification Question: What evidence supports the theory of plate tectonics?

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6. Plate movement is driven by ____________. _________is the transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of a liquid or gas.

Tectonic plates are the top parts of giant _________cells that bring matter from the _____ inner mantle up to the _____ surface.

Fill in the Partial Graphic Organizer on the back of this sheet as we go through the boundary types. Sketch a diagram representing the plate
boundary and its movement. Then, fill in the plate boundary, type of plate movement, list whether volcanoes/earthquakes are common, and
if lithosphere (oceanic or continental) is created/destroyed/neither. The first one is done for you as an example.
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Diagram Type of plate movement Earthquakes or Lithosphere

Plate
(include lithosphere, asthenosphere, (Plates move: toward, away, or volcanoes or created/destroyed/neither
Boundary
and arrows indicting movement) past each other) common? (oceanic or continental)

Continental lithosphere is
Earthquakes and
Convergent Toward each other created and oceanic
volcanoes
lithosphere is destroyed

8. What boundary do we have here? Would lithosphere be created or destroyed, how do you know?
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Essential Question: What is the theory of plate tectonics and what evidence do we have to support
it?____________________________________________________________________________________
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