SciShow: How Tectonic Plates Shape Life... and Vice Versa

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Content of the Lesson: This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! Stream the album on major music services here: https://streamlink.to/music-for-scientists. Check out “The Idea” music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUyT94aGmbc. You might think of plate tectonics as destructive since it's the ultimate force behind earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. But the slow movement of our planet's surface does a lot more than shake things up now and then. Some scientists think life may never have survived without it! Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara Growing Violet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.10282 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825220303445 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JC086iC10p09776 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earths-tectonic-activity-may-be-crucial-for-life-and-rare-in-our-galaxy/ https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2707 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X18300785?via%253Dihub#! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X15001537 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180730172814.htm https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03614 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063313002663 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018206000289 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170111-the-unexpected-ingredient-necessary-for-life https://theconversation.com/does-a-planet-need-plate-tectonics-to-develop-life-61303 https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/habitableworlds2017/pdf/4034.pdf https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2014GB005054 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987115300062 https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.589.2620&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC34224/ https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.589.2620&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://www.britannica.com/science/igneous-rock/Classification-of-volcanic-and-hypabyssal-rocks https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X15001537 Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler-22_diagram.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleiades_large.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:InteriorOfVenus.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_15_sample_15486_S71-44250.jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/239282.php https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weathering_Limestone_State_College_PA.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M15-162b-EarthAtmosphere-CarbonDioxide-FutureRoleInGlobalWarming-Simulation-20151109.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seashells_North_Wales_1985.jpg


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