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Earth Science Geology Name __Key___________ Dynamic Earth Review Date______________ Class______________ Directions: Please use your notes, work sheets, and “schoolnotes page” links to complete the following. These are the concepts you should be most familiar with and should study for the summative. The date of the summative is _May 30________________! Layers and make-up of the Earth: a. label and describe! b. What are the minerals that make up each layer? Crust – silicates – Silicon and Oxygen Mantle – Iron, Magnesium, Silicon, Oxygen Core – Iron, nickel Plate Tectonics: What is it? Why is it important? Plate Tectonics explains that the Earth is made up of rigid slowly moving pieces or plates. The plates are a combination of the Crust and the Lithosphere. There are 8 major plates and many minor plates. What landforms can we find at each type of boundary and what type of motion do we see? Divergent: Convergent: Transform: c. Is there evidence of plate tectonics in Connecticut? Where? Give specific evidence! The Western part of the state was part of a collision zone millions of years ago, creating enormous mountains. The Central CT valley was a rifting zone and nearly became to location of the Atlantic Ocean. For some reason this rifting stopped and moved to the East. This created the valley we live in. Pangaea: What is it? – A large super continent that existed millions of years ago – there may have been other supercontinents as well. What evidence do we have that it really existed? – We have fossil evidence, glacial evidence, and we can see that the shape of the continents fit together a bit like a puzzle. What does this map tell us? This map shows fossil and shape evidence for Pangaea. Sea-floor Spreading and continental drift: a. What is it? The process of tectonic plates moving apart and creati