1. Plate Tectonics
How do rock layers form?

2. Guiding Question: How did the Hawaiian islands form?
Hawaiian Islands Phenomenon
What patterns do you notice among the islands?
What events could have caused the formation of these landforms?
Guiding Question: How did the Hawaiian islands form?

3. Geology
The study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change.

4. Why Evolutionists Study Geology
The history and evolution of life and our climate, comes from the study of the geologic record. 
 It includes the study of fossil life and physical changes to the Earth
Changes include: movements of continents; formation and reconfiguration of ocean basins; growth of mountain ranges; erosion and redistribution of sediments; changes in surface environments; and changes in climate over time.

5. Layers of Earth Core Mantle Crust Including the asthenosphere
Three major concentric zones of the earth
Core
Mantle
Including the asthenosphere
Crust
Continental crust
Oceanic crust: 71% of crust

6. Major Features of Earth’s Crust and Upper Mantle

7. The Earth Beneath Your Feet Is Moving!!
Convection cells, or currents
Tectonic Plates
Lithosphere

8. The Earth’s Major Tectonic Plates

9. The Earth Beneath Your Feet Is Moving!!
Three types of boundaries between plates
Transform Plates: Lateral sliding
Effect: lithosphere neither created nor destroyed
Divergent plates: Spreading
Effect: oceanic lithosphere created
Ex: Oceanic ridge
Convergent plates: Subduction
Effect: oceanic lithosphere destroyed
Ex: Trench

10. Where are each type of boundary?

11. The Earth Beneath Your Feet Is Moving!!
Ex: Transform fault; e.g., California San Andreas fault