🌍 Plate Tectonics & Earth History
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MS-ESS2-3
Plate TectonicsAnalyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.
Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI)
ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth
Tectonic processes continually generate new ocean sea floor at ridges and destroy old sea floor at trenches.
Tectonic processes continually generate new ocean sea floor at ridges and destroy old sea floor at trenches.
ESS2.A: Earth's Materials and Systems
The planet's systems interact over scales that range from microscopic to global size, and they operate over fractions of a second to billions of years.
The planet's systems interact over scales that range from microscopic to global size, and they operate over fractions of a second to billions of years.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- Analyze fossil distribution patterns as evidence for plate motion
- Interpret rock formations and their relationship to tectonic processes
- Understand continental drift and seafloor spreading
- Connect geological evidence to Earth's history
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