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The document discusses plate tectonics and how the movement of tectonic plates shapes the Earth's surface. It describes three types of plate boundaries: divergent boundaries where plates move apart and new crust is generated, convergent boundaries where plates come together resulting in subduction and mountain building, and transform boundaries where plates slide past each other causing faults. Most plate movement occurs at plate boundaries, resulting in earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains.

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Plate Tectonic Movements WS

The document discusses plate tectonics and how the movement of tectonic plates shapes the Earth's surface. It describes three types of plate boundaries: divergent boundaries where plates move apart and new crust is generated, convergent boundaries where plates come together resulting in subduction and mountain building, and transform boundaries where plates slide past each other causing faults. Most plate movement occurs at plate boundaries, resulting in earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains.

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3Q WEEK 1 DAY 2

Name: Date:

EQ: How is Earth’s crust changed by plate movements?

Plate Tectonics: Welcome to the greatest show on Earth. Propelled by intense heat simmering beneath the crust or the
mantle, Earth’s surface is dramatically reshaping itself in an endless, slow-motion movement called plate tectonics.
Tectonic plates or huge slabs of solid rocks separate, collide, and slide past each other causing earthquakes, feeding
volcanic eruptions, and raising mountains. Scientists now have a fairly good understanding of how the plates move and
how such movements relate to earthquake activity. Most movement occurs along narrow zones between plates, plate
boundaries, where the results of plate-tectonic forces are most evident.

Types of plate boundaries:

1. Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the plates


pull away or separates from each other.
Examples: mid ocean ridge, rift valleys
2. Convergent boundaries -- where crust come together. One crust is
destroyed as it dives under another, known as subduction.
Examples: subduction, Marianas trench, mountains, volcanoes
3. Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor
destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other. Example:
San Andreas fault

Plates Move Apart: Divergent Boundary

Atlantic ocean, along a global system of mountain ridges, Earth’s


plates are growing and spreading apart. Each year these oceanic
spreading ridges erupt more than three times as much molten rock as
do all the volcanoes on land. Magma rises from Earth’s mantle at
spreading ridges and cools on and beneath the ocean floor, adding to
the plates on either side. The growing plates inch away from the
ridges—widening ocean basins and rafting apart entire continents.

Plates Come Together: Convergent Boundary

Where plates come together, or converge, we see some dramatic manifestations of


plate tectonics. At convergent margins, continents grow as plates are consumed.

Three types of Convergent Boundaries

1. Convergent boundary between continental and oceanic crust results to


subduction, volcanoes, and trenches.

2. Convergent boundary between two oceanic crust results to subduction, and the
trenches formed are deeper like the Marianas Trench, which can sink Mt. Everest.

3. Convergent boundary between two continental crust results to building up the


rocks forming mountains like the Appalachian and Himalayas mountain ranges.
Plates Pass By: Transform Boundary

Why do earthquakes shake California? The


state straddles two plates that are moving past
each other like trains on opposite tracks. The
plate boundary is marked by a zone of active
faults—breaks in the rock and ground surface
caused by plate movements. The most famous
of these is the 1200-km (750-mi) long San
Andreas Fault. The San Andreas fault is a transform fault, a kind common on the
sea floor but rarely found on land.

Clarifying Questions:

1. What is plate tectonics

Propelled by intense heat simmering beneath the crust or the mantle, Earth’s surface is dramatically reshaping itself
in an endless, slow-motion movement called plate tectonics.

2. How is the earth’s surface affected by the movement of the tectonic plates

The many tectonic plates shift and interact all the time. This motion reshapes the Earth's outer layer.
Earthquakes, volcanoes and mountains are the result of this process.
3. Where do most movements happen in the Earth’s crust?
Most movement occurs along narrow zones between plates, plate boundaries, where the results of plate-tectonic
forces are most evident. Atlantic ocean, along a global system of mountain ridges, Earth's plates are growing and
spreading apart.
4. What are three types of plate boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
Transform Boundaries

5. Matching type: Plate Boundaries


C Convergent boundary a. Mid-ocean ridges, rift valleys
A Divergent boundary b. Fault lines
B Transform boundary c. Subduction, trench, mountains, volcanoes

6. Matching type: Plate Boundaries


B Convergent boundary a. Tectonic plates move apart.
A Divergent boundary b. Tectonic plates come together.
C Transform boundary c. Tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other.

7. Matching type: Plate Boundaries


C Convergent boundary a. Himalayas and the Appalachian mountain ranges
A Divergent boundary b. San Andreas Fault
B Transform boundary c. Atlantic mid ocean ridge, African rift valley

8. Matching type: Convergent boundaries


A Continental to oceanic a. Subduction, volcanoes, and trenches
B Oceanic to oceanic b. Subduction, deeper trenches, volcanoes
C Continental to continental c. Mountain ranges like the Appalachian and Himalayas

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