1. Plate Tectonics Notes Notes

2. Plate Tectonics Theory of Plate Tectonics –
explains the way that continents separated into today’s land masses from Pangea
The study of plate movement and the features that they affect.

3. The lithosphere is broken into 8 major plates
Eurasian
African
Indo-Australian
Pacific
North American
South American
Antarctic
Nazca

4. Find the 7 Major Plates

5. When plates move they cause:
Ocean basins
(anywhere on Earth covered by ocean water)
Mountain Ranges
Islands
Volcanoes
Earthquakes

6. Ocean Basin 5 Major Oceans- Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean
Southern Ocean
Arctic Ocean
All Ocean water

7. What features do you think are formed
at each of the following boundaries?

8. Types of Plate Boundaries

9. Convergent Boundary
Subduction – When the denser plate slides under the less dense plate
Volcanoes and frequent earthquakes occur at the boundaries

10. Convergent Boundary
Folded Mountains occur when 2 continental plates collide

11. Divergent Boundary c Plate move away from each other Form ocean basins
Rift Valleys

12. Rift Valley formed

13. Transform Boundary Plates slide past one another causes earthquakes
It doesn’t destroy or build Earth’s crust.
San Andreas Fault is an example of this boundary.

14. SAN ANDREAS FAULT

15. Find the Plate Boundaries

16. Seismic Activity