The document provides background information on plate tectonics and the three main types of plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform. It explains that plate movement leads to rock deformation through folding and faulting. The learning activity asks students to describe the three plate boundary types in a diagram and compare convergent boundaries and anticlines-synclines in a Venn diagram.
The document provides background information on plate tectonics and the three main types of plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform. It explains that plate movement leads to rock deformation through folding and faulting. The learning activity asks students to describe the three plate boundary types in a diagram and compare convergent boundaries and anticlines-synclines in a Venn diagram.
The document provides background information on plate tectonics and the three main types of plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform. It explains that plate movement leads to rock deformation through folding and faulting. The learning activity asks students to describe the three plate boundary types in a diagram and compare convergent boundaries and anticlines-synclines in a Venn diagram.
The document provides background information on plate tectonics and the three main types of plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform. It explains that plate movement leads to rock deformation through folding and faulting. The learning activity asks students to describe the three plate boundary types in a diagram and compare convergent boundaries and anticlines-synclines in a Venn diagram.
1. The Earth’s outermost rigid layer (lithosphere)is broken into discrete plates each moving more or less as a unit. 2. Driven by mantle convection, the lithospheric plates ride over the soft, ductile asthenosphere. 3. Different types of relative motion and different types of lithosphere at plate boundaries create a distinctive sets of geologic features.
CONCEPT OF LITHOSPHERIC PLATE
The lithosphere consists of the crust and the uppermost mantle. Average thickness of continental lithosphere :150km. Average thickness of old oceanic lithosphere: 100km.
THREE TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARIES
Types of Plate Boundaries Plate Description Example movement Forms elevated ridge with rift Mid-Atlantic valley at the center; submarine ridge; East Oceanic-Oceanic volcanism and shallow Pacific rise Plates earthquakes moving Divergent away from Broad elevated region with major Mid-Atlantic each other rift valley; abundant volcanism ridge; East and shallow earthquakes Pacific rise Continental-Continental
Dense oceanic plate slips beneath
less dense continental plate; trench forms on the subducting plate side and extensive Western South Oceanic- Continental volcanism on the overriding America continental plate; earthquake foci Plates becoming deeper in the direction moving of subduction toward each Older, cooler, denser plate slips Convergent other beneath less dense plate; trench Aleutians; forms on subducting plate side and island arc on overriding Marianas Oceanic-Oceanic plate; band of earthquakes becoming deeper in the direction of subduction
Neither mass is subducted;
plate edges are compressed, Continental- Himalayas; folded, and uplifted resulting Continental Alps in the formation of major mountain range Transform Lithosphere is neither created mid-ocean Plate nor destroyed; most offset ridge; San sliding past oceanic ridge systems while Andreas fault each other some cut through continental
1 crust; characterized by shallow earthquakes
DEFORMATION- refers to the change in the original shape and size of a rock. The deformation is caused by tectonic forces.
When rocks are subjected to stresses (tectonic processes), they begin to deform. They deform by folding and faulting. FOLDING- or folds occur when rocks are pushed towards each other from opposite sides. FAULTING- the fracturing and displacement of brittle rocks strata along a fault plane.
Learning Competency with Code
Explain how the movement of plates leads to the formation of folds and faults. S11/12ES-Id- 22
Directions/Instructions Read and answer carefully the following activities.
Exercises/Activities
ACTIVITY 1 Direction: Using a diagram describe the three plate boundaries.
ACTIVITY 2: Direction: Using a Venn diagram. Compare and contrast the following. 1. Convergent boundary 2. Anticline-syncline
CONVERGENT BOUNDARY AND DIVERGENT BOUNDARY
2 ANTICLINE-SYNCLINE
Reflection The change in the original shape and size of a rock is called deformation. The deformation is caused by tectonic forces. When rocks are subjected to stresses (tectonic processes), they begin to deform. They deform by folding and faulting.
Forms elevated ridge with beneath less dense plate; trench rift valley at the center; forms on subducting plate side and island arc on overriding plate; submarine volcanism and band of earthquakes becoming shallow earthquakes deeper in the direction of subduction
Broad elevated region with Neither mass is subducted;
major rift valley; abundant plate edges are Lithosphere is neither created volcanism and shallow compressed, folded, and nor destroyed; most offset earthquakes uplifted resulting in the oceanic ridge systems while formation of major some cut through continental mountain range crust; characterized by shallow earthquakes
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LEONOR C. ROYO T-II
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