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Thursday 1-31 ps Homework Continental drift Due today • Question Set #2 Friday in class Rube Time Time to draw and make lists Time to make connections between your design and concepts in physics Time to gather data and calculate values For CP Take out a piece of paper Name, Date, and Class period You will answer the following questions to the best of your ability You may use any notes Answers will be reviewed in class, then collected Question #1 • What is the difference between the Moho discontinuity and the Aurora Borealis(Northern lights) ? Question #2 • Which section contains the greatest portion of the Earth: core mantle crust Question #3 • Compare and contrast the Outer Core to the Inner Core using a Venn diagram. Question #4 • What does density of an object mean to you? • What information about the object do you need to know to determine it’s density? Question 5 • What happens to the density of the material that makes up the Earth as you move from the surface to its center? Question 6 • What happens to the temperature and pressure of the rock as you ascend from the center of the Earth to its surface? Question 7 • Compare and Contrast the Lithosphere and Asthenosphere using a Venn diagram Question 8 • Compare and contrast Oceanic crust to Continental Crust using a Venn diagram Question 9 • What does the word evolution mean to you? • How can the concept of evolution be applied to both you and the ground you walk on? Question #10 • Which will significantly effect the movement of the Earth? A) Billions of people running to the right at the same time B) Simultaneous explosion of 500 large nuclear bombs around the world C) A major eruption of a large volcano along the strength of the Mt. St. Helens eruption Homework assignment • Use the internet and book to find descriptions of the following concepts: Pangaea Panthalassa Continental drift Mesosaurus Mid-Atlantic Ridge Magma Sea-floor spreading Paleomagnetism Divergent boundary Convergent Boundary Rift Valley Subduction Zone Ocean Trench Transform Boundary Alfred Wegener Alfred Wegener • German 1880-1930 • Professor in Meterology • Died in Greenland, from exposure • Fought in world war 1 for Germany, wounded several times • His book caused so much stir in USA, was never reprinted (in part that he was not a geologist) His big idea • Continental drift defined as continents move over time Wegener was not the first to conceive of the idea but he was the first to present it with scientific evidence Why he came up with the idea of continental drift Reasons he believed that the continents were once together: Physical shape of continents Fossil evidence Rock evidence of different past climates @various locations Age of oceans, shallow – vs – deep Paleomagnetism of ocean rocks Fossil evidence • Fossil evidence from the same species of different types of animals are found in several distant places around the world • Mesosaurus, a small extinct reptile found in both South America and Southern Africa Why it this evidence for Drift? • Little reptiles could not swim the Atlantic ocean • Isolated colonies will adapt and change to their new environment Rock Evidence • Certain rock layers show evidence of: Glaciers that existed in regions south America and Africa that currently experience no snow Tropical and temperate forests in Antarctica Finding fossils in Antarctica Evidence for motion of the Ocean floor • Age of ocean rock vs continental rock Max age of ocean crust 175 million, max age of continental crust around 4 billion • The existence of ridges in the middle of the oceans Paleomagnetism • Hot rock does not have a set magnetic direction • As it cools, the magnetic orientation of is fixed • New ocean floor comes up at the ridges Flipping of the earth’s magnetic orientation • Evidence that it flips every 200,000 to several million years • Discovered bands of rock with different orientation • Matched bands on both sides of the ridge What is the best explanation? • New ocean floor is being produced and this material is pushing the sides of the ridge apart • This in turn moves the continents apart