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Science and Santa Claus  \n2.  Continental Drift  \n3.  Evidence from the Seafloor  \n4.  Plate Tectonics  \n5.  Plate Boundaries  \nCopyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display.  \nScience and Santa Claus  \nParadigm  \n• Models or patterns for thinking about or valuing a situation  \nParadigm Shift  \n• A fundamental change in an accepted view or understanding of a concept  \n• Example: Santa Claus vs. parents as a source of Christmas gifts  \nThe Good Earth/Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics  \nPlate Tectonics Concept Survey  \nUsing examples that are not described in this chapter; identify and briefly describe:  \n1. A personal paradigm shift.  \n2. A cultural or social paradigm shift  \n3. A scientific paradigm shift  \nThe Good Earth/Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics  \nScience and Santa Claus  \n• Plate tectonics represents a paradigm shift in our view of the Earth and how it works  \n− Change of views occurred over several decades  \n• Earth’s surface divided into two major elevation zones  \n− Land and shallow oceans − Deep ocean floor  \nThe Good Earth/Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics  \nGo back to the Table of Contents  \nGo to the next section: Continental Drift  \nThe Good Earth/Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics  \nPlate Tectonics Conceptest  \nWhich is the actual map of Earth’s features?  \nThe Good Earth/Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics  \nContinental Drift  \nEarly 20th Century Paradigm:  \n• Contracting Earth: Planet is slowly cooling and contracting as heat of formation is lost  \n− Mountains represent “wrinkles” formed by the contraction of the surface  \n− Collapse of surface formed ocean basins − Continents, oceans effectively fixed in place − Vertical crustal movements dominate  \nThe Good Earth/Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics  \nContinental Drift  \nWegener’s Alternative Paradigm:  \n• Continental Drift: continents have occupied different locations on Earth’s surface in the geologic past  \n− 250 million years ago the continents were all together in a  \n“supercontinent”, Pangaea  \n− Continents “drifted” across surface of Earth to their present locations  \nThe Good Earth/Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics  \nContinental Drift  \nWegener’s Observations:  \nMatching features  \n• Distribution of plant and animal fossils matched between continents  \nThe Good Earth/Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics  \nContinental Drift  \nWegener’s Observations:  \nMatching features  \n• A continuous mountain belt can be formed when Pangaea is reassembled  \nThe Good Earth/Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics","cbCaimBSAxjchfdZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimBSAxjchfdZ","pdf",22450938,91,"English","# Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics\n## Science and Santa Claus\n## Continental Drift\n## Evidence from the Seafloor\n## Plate Tectonics\n## Plate Boundaries","[{\"question\":\"What is a paradigm shift, and how is it connected to plate tectonics?\",\"answer\":\"A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in an accepted view or understanding of a concept. 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