1. Fold and Glue into Notebook
Plate Tectonics Notes
Plate tectonics: The theory that explains how large pieces of the Earth’s outermost layer, called tectonic plates, move and change shape.
Plate boundary: Place where two tectonic plates ______________ (Like the seams on a puzzle that is put together)
a. All tectonic plates ________________ boundaries with other tectonic plates.
b. There are 3 types of plate boundaries.
c. The type of boundary depends on how the two plates ________________________.
Draw the arrows for each type:

2. 1. Convergent Boundaries: 3 types depending on the crusts that meet
Collision of two lithospheric plates
A. Continental-Continental Collision
When continental plates ____________________, they buckle and thicken, which pushes the continental crust upward.
Result: _____________________________________
B. Continental-Oceanic Collision
When a plate with oceanic crust collides with a plate with continental crust, the __________________oceanic crust sinks (________________) into the ________________________________.
C. Oceanic-Oceanic Collision
When two tectonic plates with oceanic lithosphere collide, __________ of the plates with oceanic lithosphere is subducted, or ________________, under the other plate.
Result: Trenches, ___________________________________, or island formation
2. Divergent Boundary
The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving ___________________ from each other.
Oceanic Separation
Result:________________________
B. Continental Separation
Result:_____________________________
3. Transform Boundary
When plates are sliding past each other __________________.
A. Continental or Oceanic Plates Slide
As two plates ______________________ past each other, their irregular edges ___________________ and jerk.
Result: _________________________________________
Two plates _____________ from each other. As they move apart, ________ may rise to fill the gap.

3. Fold and Glue into Notebook
Plate Tectonics Notes
Plate tectonics: (define)
Plate boundary: (define)
Draw the arrows for each type:

4. 1. Convergent Boundaries: 3 types depending on the crusts that meet
A. Continental-Continental Collision
Result: _____________________________________
B. Continental-Oceanic Collision
When a plate with oceanic crust collides with a plate with continental crust,
C. Oceanic-Oceanic Collision
When two tectonic plates with oceanic lithosphere collide,
Result:___________________________________________
2. Divergent Boundary
Oceanic Separation
Result:________________________
B. Continental Separation
Result:_____________________________
3. Transform Boundary
A. Continental or Oceanic Plates Slide
Result: _________________________________________
Two plates _____________ from each other. As they move apart, ________ may rise to fill the gap.