Slide 1 Agenda 3/21 Warm-Up: How do you think mountains are formed? Use what you’ve learned so far about plate tectonics to make a guess. Notes: Mountain Building Planet…

Slide 1 Minerals of Earth’s Crust Chapter 5 Slide 2 What is a mineral? A natural, usually inorganic solid that has a characteristic chemical composition, an orderly internal…

Slide 1 Chapter 6 Slide 2 magma- melted rock below Earth’s surface; called lava at the surface Slide 3 Core- Earth’s innermost structure two views of the same thing Slide…

Slide 1 Plate tectonics: Earth structure and plate geometry I Important: This chapter follows mainly on chapter 2 in Fowler’s textbook. Plate tectonics - a theory that…

Slide 1 Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Volcanoes Slide 2 --A theory that says the Earth’s lithosphere (Remember what that is?...hint: think crust) is divided into solid…

Slide 1 Rocks and Minerals Slide 2 No other planet in the solar system has the unique combination of fluids of Earth. Earth has a surface that is mostly covered with liquid…

Slide 1 Pies and Pastry Slide 2 Pastry 1. Explain the differences between a single crusted pie, double crusted pie and a pie shell. Pie shell – baked separately, filled…

Slide 1 Earth’s Moving Boundaries: shaping the planet the Slide 2 Earth’s Moving Plates Lithosphere  the solid part of the Earth Lithosphere  the solid part of…

Slide 1 1 Geo-Neutrinos : a new probe of Earth’s interior What is the amount of U, Th and 40 K in the Earth? What is the amount of U, Th and 40 K in the Earth? Determine…

Slide 1 Forces in Earth’s Crust Part 1 Slide 2 Stress: a force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume *The movement of Earth’s plates creates an enormous force…