Sea Floor Spreading Worksheet

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Sea floor spreading worksheet.

Scientists have found strange rocks shaped like pillows in the central valley of mid ocean ridges. Seafloor spreading is happening at b. Instead it sinks beneath deep underwater canyons called deep ocean trenches. The presence of these rocks supports the theory of sea floor spreading.

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Sea floor spreading continually adds new material to the ocean floor. Seafloor spreading questions q pearson seafloor spreading worksheets sea floor spreading pg 23 29 sea floor spreading edhelper images e993 com whats people lookup in this blog. Some of the worksheets for this concept are sea floor spreading work inside earth work name date sea floor spreading l 1 2 3 a model of seafloor spreading sea floor spreading sea floor spreading modeling sea floor spreading chapter 8 plate tectonics. Molten rock pushes up from the asthenosphere and pushes the plates apart at the mid ocean ridge.

Displaying top 8 worksheets found for sea floor spreading answer key. Students will observe seafloor spreading in the classroom through a paper towel spreading center demonstration illustrating the relative motion of the plates. The old crust gets pushed to the. The ocean floor does not just keep spreading.

The final proof of sea floor spreading came from rock samples obtained by drilling into the ocean floor. Sea floor spreading worksheet answers pearson education.