1. Stop the Continent, I Want to Get Off! Plate Tectonics 1

2. Alfred Wegener

4. Glossopteris

8. Continental Drift Pangea Laurasia Gondwanaland

9. Mountain Ranges

10. Paleomagnetism Magnetite - Fe 3 O 4

11. Magnetism

12. MOR = Mid-Oceanic Ridge

17. Iceland – The MOR Rises Above the Sea

20. “Hot spots” are places in the mantle that are hotter than the surrounding material. They are something like a lava lamp, and it is speculated that they may function to release heat from the core. They are fixed in place for millions of years, so they form chains of volcanoes as the moving plates pass over them. Because they are fixed in place, sometimes they are on the edges of a plate, but other times they are far from the edges. Hot Spots

21. The Hawaiian Islands

22. The Yellowstone Hot Spot

23. Convection in the mantle drives the plate motion

24. 3 Types of Plate Boundaries A) Divergent = moving away from each other B) Convergent = moving toward each other C) Transform = sliding past each other

26. Living on the Edge Plate Tectonics 2 Next Week: Living on the Edge Plate Tectonics 2 We will discuss the three types of boundaries and the processes and landforms that occur there.