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Asked on Oct 28, 2008 at 8:06:26PM

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Respond to the following scenario:
o Your younger brother is in 5th grade. He comes home and tells you to look at an
animation his teacher showed him in geology class.
o After viewing the animation, your brother has a look of disbelief on his face, Â“CÂ’mon,
really? Our whole continent moves? ThatÂ’s bogus!Â” Instead of blowing him off like you
usually do, you decide to sit down and educate him about plate tectonics. First, you
give him an overview about two historical figures that contributed to the plate tectonic
theory. Then, you decide to show him how the plates move by boiling a pot of water
and relating it to mantle convection and plate movement.
Â· Write a 200- to 300-word summary about the two historical figures and the process of
mantle convection and plate movement.

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Posted on Oct 28, 2008 at 10:14:58PM

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Preview: ... ere lies the asthenosphere. The first evidence that crust plates did move around came with the discovery of variable magnetic field direction in rocks of different ages. One plate meets another along a plate boundary, and plate boundaries are commonly associated with g ...

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Preview: ... tive to each other, causing continents to collide and move apart. By the end of that decade, a complete model of the plate tectonics had been developed. Plate tectonics is the process that makes these plates move. The interior of the earth is warmer than the surface. Currents within the earth bring the heat to the surface. These cur ...

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Preview: ... me into the five major continents we have today, plus Antarctica. Wegener’s evidence included rocks from different continents that had the exact same features, such as glacier markings, or magnetic signatures. About thirty years before Wegener proposed his idea, a man named James Dwight Dana made a trip to Hawaii to analyze the rocks of the Hawaiian Islands. After s ...

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Preview: ... as volcanoes, ridges, etc. Much seismic activity today occurs along the boundary of the Earth's plates which helps reinforce the Plate Tectonics Theory. The general movement of these plates is at about 50-100 mm/a. The location where plates meet is also known as the plate boundary and is beli ...

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