ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth

ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth

 Tectonic processes continually generate new ocean sea floor at ridges and destroy old sea floor at trenches. (HS.ESS1.C GBE) (secondary to MS-ESS2-3)

ESS2.A: Earth's Materials and Systems

 All Earth processes are the result of energy flowing and matter cycling within  and  among  the  planet’s  systems.  This  energy  is  derived  from  the   sun and  Earth’s  hot  interior.   The energy that flows and matter that cycles produce chemical and  physical  changes  in  Earth’s  materials and living organisms. (MS-ESS2-1)

 The  planet’s systems interact over scales that range from microscopic to global in size, and they operate over fractions of a second to billions of years. These interactions have shaped  Earth’s  history  and  will  determine   its future. (MS-ESS2-2)

ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions

 Maps of ancient land and water patterns, based on investigations of rocks  and  fossils,  make  clear  how  Earth’s  plates  have  moved  great distances, collided, and spread apart. (MS-ESS2-3)