ANDREI KRISTINE A.

DABALOS
ABM112-RESPECTFUL
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

I. I agree in movements of the earths crust because the scientist studied and and said in may have
possibilities that It must’ve happened. There’s also fossil evidence that strongly supported the theory of
continental drift. Fossils of similar types of plants and animals in rocks of a similar age have been found
on the shores of different continents, suggesting that the continents were once joined.

II. In ScienceDaily article, they said that Scientists examining rocks older than 3 billion years
discovered that the Earth's tectonic plates move around today much as they did between 2 and 4
billion years ago. The findings suggest that the continents settled into place and sustained life much
earlier than previously thought, and give insights into plate tectonics on other planets.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200422151310.htm

III.
1. Seafloor spreading occurs at divergent plate boundaries. As tectonic plates slowly move
away from each other, heat from the mantle's convection currents makes the crust more plastic
and less dense. The less-dense material rises, often forming a mountain or elevated area of the
seafloor.

2. There are three basic types of folds (1) anticlines, (2) synclines and (3) monoclines.

An anticline is a structural trap formed by the folding of rock strata into an arch-like shape

A syncline is the downward arc or curve of a fold. A fold, in geology, is a bend in a rock layer
caused by forces within the crust of the earth. The forces that cause folds range from slight
differences in pressure in the earth's crust, to large collisions of the crust's tectonic plates.

A monocline (or, rarely, a monoform) is a step-like fold in rock strata consisting of a zone of
steeper dip within an otherwise horizontal or gently-dipping sequence.

3. There are four types of faulting -- normal, reverse, strike-slip, and oblique. A normal fault
is one in which the rocks above the fault plane, or hanging wall, move down relative to the rocks
below the fault plane, or footwall.