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Earth's Internal and Surface Processes

Virginia SOL ESII.3

Investigate and understand that Earth's internal and surface processes produce changes in continental and ocean-floor features.

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What students need to be able to do

  • Develop and use a model to explain the relationships between plate boundaries and predict phenomena.
  • Develop and use a model to explain plate motion.
  • Make, support, and evaluate claims about the cycling of matter, ages of rocks, distribution of rocks and minerals, and the formation of continental and oceanic features.
  • Explain changes in Earth's surface features by analyzing seismic data (frequency of events, location, depth, magnitude, and stress).
  • Explain the relationship between magma composition and resulting internal and surface features.