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1 Piecing Together the Plates by Lisa McCready

2 What We’ve Discovered… Our Earth is covered with plates The borders between the plates are also known as “ ” There are three main types

3 Oceanic vs. Continental Oceanic vs. Oceanic “ ” What happens here? CONVERGENT

4 DIVERGENT In the Oceans On the Continents What happens here?

5 TRANSFORM What happens here?

6 What are Plates? Type of CrustAverage ThicknessAverage AgeMajor Component Continental Crust20-80 kilometers 3 billion years Granite Oceanic Crust 10 kilometers Generally 70 to 100 million years old Basalt

7 Activity Time Map the 15 most well known plates Discover their names Figure out some boundary types Develop a phrase to help you remember the plate names http://www.kidsknowit.com/educational-songs/index.php?topic=Geology

8 http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/howell/goodies/elearning/module04swf.swf

9 QUESTIONS?

10 http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/1595682/5 390276 Who Loves Bill Nye, The Science Guy?

11 Citations Slide Background Image: http://www.freewebs.com/morganisrupert/597340%5B1%5D.jpg Convergent, Divergent, Transform Images: http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:FI_6AVFpQZz_eM:http://www.nasa.gov/images /content/65872main_Convergent_Boundary.gif http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:FI_6AVFpQZz_eM:http://www.nasa.gov/images /content/65872main_Convergent_Boundary.gif Answer Key (Map with Plate Names): http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/images/new_map.jpg 3-D Picture: http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/deathvalley/html/thumbs.htm Ideas/Definitions: http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/plate.html http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/tectonic.html http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/F_Earth_Has_Faults.html What are Plates Images: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.sht ml http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.sht ml

12 What are Plates? http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/s tructure.html http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/s tructure.html

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