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Plate Tectonics

Virginia SOL GEO.6

Investigate the theory of plate tectonics to explain past and current movements of Earth's surface.

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What students need to be able to do

  • Develop and use a model to explain how internal tectonic forces and processes result in plate movement.
  • Make, support, and evaluate a claim about how plate tectonics explains the age of rocks in different locations.
  • Make, support, and evaluate a claim about how the distribution of rocks and minerals reflects past tectonic activity.
  • Make, support, and evaluate a claim to explain the location and size of continents and oceans.
  • Develop and use a model to explain tectonic events that created Virginia's physiographic provinces.