Assignment 1: Concept Map - Seafloor Spreading
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Seafloor spreading is a key concept to the theory of continental drift. Based on this week's readings and lectures, construct a concept map that diagrams this geological process.
Your Concept Map
As we discussed in class, concept mapping Links to an external site. includes selecting terms, ranking concepts, arranging concepts in clusters, and linking concepts according to a cognitive scheme.
You can draw your concept map by hand, or use bubbl.us Links to an external site., Excel, or other diagramming software.
Remember: your concept map should include nodes for each of the terms, appropriate connectors, and labels for each connectors.
It should diagram the relationships among the following ideas:
- seafloor spreading
- contintental drift
- continental crust
- convection currents
- failed arms
- lithosphere
- magma
- mid-ridge crust
- new sea
- ocean basin
- oceanic crust
- plates
- rifts
- rift arms
- volcanic activity
- Concept map instructions adapted from "Concept Mapping & the Classification of Matter" Curry School of Education, University of Virginia - teacherlink.org/content/science/ Links to an external site.
- Concept map image, CC-By-NC-SA from WikiMedia Commons Links to an external site.
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A node for each term
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Appropriate connectors
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Description of criterion
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Explain seafloor spreading
Explain seafloor spreading; where is it, what happens there
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