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    Plate Boundaries and Mag. Reversals

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    The document discusses plate tectonics and different types of plate boundaries. It provides a chart for students to complete labeling the type of boundary (convergent, divergent, transform) shown in three diagrams. It also asks students to draw convection currents to explain a divergent boundary and hot spot, and identify two examples of each boundary type on a plate map.

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    The document discusses plate tectonics and different types of plate boundaries. It provides a chart for students to complete labeling the type of boundary (convergent, divergent, transform) shown in three diagrams. It also asks students to draw convection currents to explain a divergent boundary and hot spot, and identify two examples of each boundary type on a plate map.

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    Plate Boundaries Worksheet Name ___________________

    The crust of the Earth is broken into plates which are on the move due to convection currents below in the Asthenosphere
    layer of the Mantel. Plates that run into one another are called convergent. Plates that are spreading or moving away
    from one another are called divergent. Plates that are sliding by one another are called transform. Your job is to use the
    diagram below to complete the chart below on the different types of plate boundaries.

    * Label the Boundary/Margin type for the


    3 diagrams on the left.

    * Draw some convection currents in the diagram above that would explain the hot spot and the divergent boundary.

    Type of Margin/Boundary
    Convergent Divergent Transform
    Motion (Describe the
    motion of one plate
    relative to another)
    Effect (Is it constructive or
    destructive to 1 or more
    of the adjacent plates?)
    Topography (What are On land you see: Usually you don’t really
    the landforms that are “see” a fault line at a
    associated with this type In the ocean you see: transform margin.
    of margin?) Sometimes you do.
    Volcanic Activity?
    (Yes/No)
    Earthquake Activity?
    (Yes/No)
    Use your plate map to
    identify 2 places in the
    world with this type of
    plate boundary/margin
    Seafloor Spreading and Magnetic Reversals
    Albert Einstein called the generation of Earth’s magnetic field one of the greatest mysteries in physics.
    Scientists are still not sure how the field is generated, though it is clearly related to the movement of
    molten iron in the liquid outer core. Even more puzzling is why the field switches back and forth between
    normal and reversed polarity.

    The measured strength of the magnetic field has dropped by 5-10% in the last 150 years, and less precise
    readings suggest it may have weakened by 25-50% over the last 5,000 years. Satellites have detected
    two areas in the mantle that appear to have reversed polarity. These data have led some to speculate that
    a magnetic reversal may be imminent.

    1. Based on the diagram, how many times has the Earth's magnetic field reversed during the past
    four million years?

    2. Approximately when did the current interval of normal polarity begin?

    3. If there had been compasses four million years ago, which direction would compass needles have
    pointed?

    4. Why are the magnetic stripes on the sea floor parallel to and symmetrical across the mid-ocean
    ridge?

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