Let's Dig In: ACTIVITY 2: Watch The Plate!

NAME: ARNEL B.
GONZALES SECTION: BEGONIA
Let’s Dig In
ACTIVITY 2: Watch the Plate!

Study the map of the relative motion of plates and identify what type of plate boundary is characterized
by each pair of crustal plates. Write your answer on Table 1 Plate boundaries along Crustal Plates
Table 1. Plate Boundaries along Crustal Plates
CRUSTAL PLATES TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARY

1. EURASIAN convergent boundaries
PLATE AND
PHILIPPINE
PLATE
2. divergent boundary
AUSTRALIA
N PLATE
AND
ANTARTIC
PLATE
3. SOUTH divergent boundary
AMERICAN
PLATE AND
AFRICAN
PLATE
4. NORTH divergent boundary
AMERICAN
PLATE AND
EURASIAN PLATE
5. NAZCA convergent boundaries
PLATE AND
SOUTH
AMERICAN
PLATE
Guide Questions:
1. How would you describe or classify the type of plate boundary that exist in the following
lithospheric plates based on the picture shown above?
a) Eurasian Plate and Philippine Plate - The segments of the Philippine-Eurasian plate
boundaries are different with each other though they are all convergent boundaries.
The interaction between the plates could be discussed one by one in four parts: the
Nankai trough, the Ryukyu trench, the Tanwan area, and the Philippine islands.
b) Australian Plate and Antarctic Plate - The southerly side is a divergent boundary
with the Antarctic Plate called the Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR). The subducting
boundary through Indonesia is not parallel to the biogeographical Wallace line that
separates the indigenous fauna of Asia from that of Australasia.
c) South American Plate and African Plate- The western edge of the African Plate is a
divergent boundary with the North American Plate to the north and the South
American Plate to the south which forms the central and southern part of the Mid-
Atlantic Ridge.
d) North America and Eurasian Plate - The boundary between the North America Plate
and the Eurasian Plate is an example of a divergent boundary at a mid-ocean ridge.
All of the plate boundaries that occur down the center of the Atlantic Ocean are
divergent boundaries that follow the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
e) Nazca Plate and South American Plate - Convergent boundaries examples of
ocean-continent convergent boundaries are subduction of the Nazca Plate under
South America (which has created the Andes Range) and subduction of the Juan de
Fuca Plate under North America (creating the mountains Garibaldi, Baker, St.
2. Since all the plates are interconnected, how does a single movement of a plate can
affect other plates?
The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent,
where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform,
where plates move sideways in relation to each other.
Let’s Remember
Directions: Sum It Up Challenge! Supply the missing words in the paragraph.
The process of the denser oceanic plate plunging back into Earth’s interior
is called 1.subduction . This happens when two crustal plate will move
2.towards each other. This type of plate boundary is known as
3.convergent. Convergent boundaries can be classified into three types.
The convergence `may occur between the continental and 4.oceanic and
oceanic plate and 5.oceanic and a continental plate and another
6.continental. The stress that acts on this boundary is 7.compression.
The next type of plate boundary is cause by the hot

molten rocks from the mantle which rises to the surface
through the 8.rift valley. It is called divergent plate
boundary. The plates move 9. away from each other.
10.Tension is the major type of stress at divergent plate
boundaries The third type of plate boundary is the
transform fault. 11.Shear stress is experienced at
transform boundaries where two plates are 12.sliding
past each other.
ACTIVITY 3: Draw Me
Directions: In each box, draw a simple diagram of the three types of plate boundaries and illustrate the
relative motion of each using an arrow.
ACTIVITY 4: Know Your Boundary!
Directions: Using the given organizer, write the necessary information to complete the concept about Types of
plate boundary
DIVERGENT CONVERGEN TRANSFOR
BOUNDARY T BOUNDARY M
BOUNDARY
A divergent A convergent boundary Transform
boundary occurs (also known as a boundaries are
when two tectonic destructive boundary) places where plates
plates move away is an area on Earth slide sideways past
from each other. where two or more each other. At
Along these lithospheric plates transform
boundaries, collide. One plate boundaries
earthquakes are eventually slides lithosphere is neither
common and beneath the other created nor
magma (molten causing a process destroyed. Many
rock) rises from the known as subduction. transform
Earth's mantle to The subduction zone boundaries are
the surface, can be defined by a found on the sea
solidifying to create plane where many floor, where they
new oceanic crust. earthquakes occur, connect segments of
called the diverging mid-ocean
Wadati–Benioff zone. ridges. California's
San Andreas fault is
a transform
boundary.

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NAME: ARNEL B.

GONZALES SECTION: BEGONIA

ACTIVITY 2: Watch the Plate!

Table 1. Plate Boundaries along Crustal Plates

CRUSTAL PLATES TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARY

Directions: Sum It Up Challenge! Supply the missing words in the paragraph.

The next type of plate boundary is cause by the hot

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