Plate Tectonics

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Mariah Wilson

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Plate Tectonics

Types of Crust

Continental-thinner, more dense (fruit roll up)
Oceanic-thicker, less dense (graham cracker)

As pieces of crust, or plates meet, different boundaries occur.

Convergent Plate Boundary

Uplift of continental plate
Mountain ranges
Volcanoes
Ring of Fire
Island Arc
Trenches (subduction zones under water)

Divergent Plate Boundary

Sea-floor spreading
Rift zones on land
Mid-ocean ridges under water

Transform Plate Boundary

Earthquakes!
Rock slides
Faults

Convergent-oceanic and continental

Convergent-continental and continental

Convergent volcanoes

Ring of fire map

Island arc drawing

Actual island arc

Deep sea trench

Divergent oceanic and oceanic

Divergent continental and continental

Mid-ocean ridge drawing

Realistic mid-ocean ridge

Rift zone drawing

Rift zone image

Transform boundary

San Andreas Fault

Multiple Choice

What is the name of a plate boundary where two plates are moving away from each other?

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

Multiple Choice

A scuba diver sees a deep sea trench. What caused the trench?

Divergent boundary

Subduction zone

A shark exploded

Transform boundary

Multiple Select

Which of these are associated with a transform boundary?

ring of fire

sea flood spreading

rift zone

rock slides

faults

Multiple Choice

A tourist is flying in an airplane and sees a line of islands. Which answer choice best explains why the islands formed this way?

A transform boundary caused them due to a fault

It is left over from Pangaea

A divergent boundary caused them due to sea-floor spreading

A subduction zone at a convergent boundary caused them

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