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Here are some of the fascinating interactive explorations you
and your students will encounter:
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- Move and rotate a globe to observe the movement of continents
over the past 200 million years.
- Study the history, development, and evidence for the theory
of plate tectonics.
- Move and rotate the continents of Africa and South America to
see how they fit together.
- Move the continents to study the changes in climate through
time.
- Build the supercontinent of Pangaea.
- Study the movement of the continents through time and answer
questions about specific events that occurred in different locations
on the globe.
- Study the evidence of paleomagnetism by tracking the positions
of the magnetic and rotational poles.
- Calculate water depth using echo travel time, then plot data
on a graph to construct a profile of the ocean floor.
- Find out what causes seafloor spreading.
- Assemble the plate tectonics "puzzle."
- Experience the major interactions along plate boundaries and
study the differences between convergent, divergent, and transform
fault boundaries.
- Rotate the globe to view the oceanic ridge system and see oceanic
lithosphere being created.
- Study continental rifts and explore current examples of the
initial breakup of a continent.
- Examine how extensional forces in the Basin and Range region
of the U.S. created fault block mountains.
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Table of Contents (Intermediate)
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- Introduction
- Continental Drift: An Idea Before Its Time
- Fit of the Continents
- Fossil Evidence
- Evidence from Rocks
- Climatic Evidence
- The Great Debate
- Exploring Continental Drift
- Applying the Evidence
- A Closer Look
- Earth's Interior
- New Evidence: Mapping the Ocean Floor
- Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds
- Divergent Plate Boundaries
- Convergent Plate Boundaries
- Transform Fault Boundaries
- A Closer Look at Plate Boundaries
- Testing the Plate Tectonics Model
- Evidence from Ocean Drilling
- Earthquake Patterns
- Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes
- What Drives Plate Motions?
- Pangaea: Before and After
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Table of Contents (Advanced)
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- Introduction
- Continental Drift: An Idea Before Its Time
- Fit of the Continents
- Fossil Evidence
- Evidence from Rocks
- Paleoclimatic Evidence
- The Great Debate
- A Scientific Revolution Begins
- Continental Drift and Paleomagnetism
- Seafloor Spreading
- Plate Tectonics: The New Paradigm
- Divergent Plate Boundaries
- Oceanic Ridges and Seafloor Spreading
- Continental Rifts
- Convergent Plate Boundaries
- Oceanic-Continental Convergence
- Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence
- Continental-Continental Convergence
- Transform Fault Boundaries
- Testing the Plate Tectonics Model
- Evidence from Ocean Drilling
- Earthquake Patterns
- Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes
- Magnetic Reversals and Seafloor Spreading
- What Drives Plate Motions?
- Pangaea: Before and After
- Formation and Breakup of Pangaea
- Plate Tectonics into the Future
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National
Science Education Standards
See how The
Theory of Plate Tectonics aligns
with NSES standards.
AEP Award Press Release from Tasa
Magazine Reviews for The Theory of Plate Tectonics
| System Requirements |
| Macintosh® |
Power Macintosh Power PC 180 MHz processor (G3 or higher recommended),
Mac OS 8.6 to Mac OS X 10.x, 32 MB of installed RAM, 128 MB of available
RAM on OS X, thousands or millions of colors. QuickTime
required. Intel Mac users click here. |
| Windows® |
Pentium II 200 MHz recommended, Microsoft Windows
98/NT4/2000/ME/XP, 32 MB or more installed of RAM, thousands or
millions of colors. QuickTime required. |
Written by Edward J. Tarbuck and Frederick K. Lutgens, Illinois
Central College.
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