Plate tectonics

How the Continents Came to be One day while Zeus was down on the earth helping and looking around at all the humans, he met a very nice mortal woman. He went up to this beautiful woman and he started to flirt with her. “I don't think I have ever met a more beautiful woman in all the world” said Zeus. “Well thank you, you very nice looking man” answered the woman. The man then asked the woman if she would like to go on a trip with him. “This trip would be an a cross continent trip” said Zeus.…

Throughout time, many ideas have come and gone about the movement of continents, some saying that it’s true, and some saying that it’s not. One theory, though, is the most well known and the one most people believe to be true. This is the continental drift theory, created by Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist. Alfred Lothar Wegener was born on November 1st, 1880 to a German family. He was the youngest child of Richard and Anna Wegener. He had 2 siblings, a sister named Tony Wegener, and a…

also refers to the form or structure, usually conical, produced by accumulations of erupted material. Volcanoes are formed near weak spots on the Earth’s crust and where magma has been stored below. Magma is created when tectonic plates come together at a subduction boundary, one plate…

underneath a small town in Haiti’s country district called Léogâne. The earthquake’s features are visually represented in Figure 2, with it placing the epicentre in the town of Léogâne. Figure 2: Map showing patterns in the earthquake and the tectonic plates surrounding it. Also as with all earthquakes there is a reduction in the intensity of shock waves which is directly related to the factors of time and distance, or even the transmission of energy 0through discontinuous materials with…

dubbed from the famous board game Monopoly. However, I only took the concept and instead of playing for money the object of the game was to test your knowledge about tectonic plate boundaries. When I tried the game out in class I was not sure which approach I would take as far as should the game be weather related due to tectonic plates, or different catastrophes…

HSIE Geography Assessment Task 2 By Josh Borro (Mount Vesuvius, Italy) Spatial Distribution of the Disaster: In the year 74 AD, 24th of August, a volcano named Mount Vesuvius erupted and caused mass destruction in Pompeii, Italy during Midday. The eruption lasted for more than 24 hours causing parts of the nearby environment to be negatively affected. According to figure number one, Mt Vesuvius is located in the Metropolitan City of Italy. The location of this particular point is 40.822383…

Volcanoes 1. “A volcano is a rupture in the Earth’s crust which allows magma/ash/gases to escape from beneath the surface. When magma reaches the surface of the Earth, it is called lava” (). 2. Volcanoes happen around the frame of tectonic plates, causing the plates to move away or crash into one another. 3. When material is much warmer than its atmosphere, and explodes onto the base of a planet or moon from the inside, a volcano occurs. Topic #2: What Causes a Volcano to Erupt? 1. Magma is…

1) Describe the two technological advances that have made it possible to better understand the dynamics of the Earth 's mantle. Two technological advances that have made it possible for scientists to better understand the dynamics of the Earth’s mantle are seismic snapshots and computer modeling. Seismic snapshots enable scientists to determine the temperature and density of the mantle. When an earthquake occurs vibrations are put into motion which create waves that can be detected by…

disasters to happen. In 2011, the ground underneath Japan had an earthquake that did not only shake the ground but it shook the future of the country for years to come. Japan sat at the junction of four major tectonic plates. The Philippian plate had been sinking under the Continental plate a few centimeters every year. This is the reason why the area was geologically vulnerable. Because of the threat of earthquakes, the Japanese were prepared for such events to occur. Investigators used sound…

is located over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate, and is an example of a mid ocean ridge seen on land. Iceland has divergent and transform plate boundaries, which are also seen along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The North American plate, with respect to the Eurasian Plate, is moving west-southwest at 2.3 centimeters per year. These two plates represent divergent plate tectonics. The plates move away from each other and magma rises up from the mantle and…