This video covers the major concepts of Unit 2, there will be questions throughout the videos that you will need to answer to continue. These are not graded and are meant for self assessment, to help you gauge how well you are understanding the concepts. If you feel like you need more help with these concepts, let me know and we can schedule time for us to meet and go over them.
This video covers the major concepts of Unit 2, there will be questions throughout the videos that you will need to answer to continue. These are not graded and are meant for self assessment, to help you gauge how well you are understanding the concepts. If you feel like you need more help with these concepts, let me know and we can schedule time for us to meet and go over them.
What is the name Wegner gave the super continent?
Does the seafloor get older or younger as you move away from the mid atlantic ridge?
What is the name of the process that occurs in the mantal that causes plates to move?
Can you predict what will happen at a divergent zones?
What geologic feature is common at a oceanic-continental convergent zone, when one palte subducts under another?
When two continental plates converge.....
One thing this video did not cover are hotspots. Where do hotspots occur?
Do hotspots move?
Hot spots occur where really hot magma is near the surface, these spots do not move, but the plates move over them forming chains of volcanic eruptions. One example of this is the Island chain of Hawaii. The smaller islands are from older eruptions and have warn down thorugh erosiion and weathering and the bigger island is the youngest and currently volcanically active.