Slide 1Lecture 2b: Hot spots Questions –Why are there volcanoes in the middle of plates? –How do such volcanoes grow and evolve? –What is the connection between hotspots…

Slide 1 Earth Science 14.1 The Vast World Ocean The Vast World Ocean Slide 2 The Blue Planet The World’s Oceans:  Nearly 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by ocean.…

Slide 1 Volcano Volcanoes are conical or dome-shaped landforms built by the emission of lava and its contained gasses (or pyroclastics) from a constricted vent onto Earth’s…

Slide 1 The Vast World Ocean Chapter 14, Section 1 Slide 2 The Blue Planet Nearly 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by the global ocean Nearly 71% of Earth’s surface…

Slide 1 Warm Up 2/4 Name the Earth’s four major ocean basins. Name the Earth’s four major ocean basins. Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic Pacific, Atlantic, Indian,…

Chapter 891011 Part 2 Planets in General Standard Plane Comparative Planetology Hartmann: Chapters 8 Planetary Interiors 9 Planetary Surfaces 10 Planetary Surfaces 11 Planetary…

Title: 18.1 Volcanoes; Divergent Volcanism & Hot Spots Page #: 103 Date: 4/29/2013 Students will be able to explain divergent volcanism. Students will be able to identify…

Internal Forces Shaping the Earth The earthâs crust consists of number of tectonic plates The crust is broken into different âplatesâ These parts of the Earth's crust…

Stop the Continent, I Want to Get Off! Plate Tectonics 1 Alfred Wegener Glossopteris Continental Drift Pangea Laurasia Gondwanaland Mountain Ranges Paleomagnetism Magnetite…

3 TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARIES Divergent Convergent Transform Divergent plate boundaries Almost all the Earthâs new crust forms at divergent boundaries, but most are not well…