The document discusses key concepts in earth science including plate tectonics, plate boundaries, and plate movement. It explains that plates move due to convection currents in the mantle and interact at boundaries where they can collide, pull apart, or slide past one another. Specifically, it notes that divergent boundaries form new crust at mid-ocean ridges, convergent boundaries involve collision or subduction of plates, and transform boundaries allow plates to slide horizontally past each other.
The document discusses key concepts in earth science including plate tectonics, plate boundaries, and plate movement. It explains that plates move due to convection currents in the mantle and interact at boundaries where they can collide, pull apart, or slide past one another. Specifically, it notes that divergent boundaries form new crust at mid-ocean ridges, convergent boundaries involve collision or subduction of plates, and transform boundaries allow plates to slide horizontally past each other.
The document discusses key concepts in earth science including plate tectonics, plate boundaries, and plate movement. It explains that plates move due to convection currents in the mantle and interact at boundaries where they can collide, pull apart, or slide past one another. Specifically, it notes that divergent boundaries form new crust at mid-ocean ridges, convergent boundaries involve collision or subduction of plates, and transform boundaries allow plates to slide horizontally past each other.
The document discusses key concepts in earth science including plate tectonics, plate boundaries, and plate movement. It explains that plates move due to convection currents in the mantle and interact at boundaries where they can collide, pull apart, or slide past one another. Specifically, it notes that divergent boundaries form new crust at mid-ocean ridges, convergent boundaries involve collision or subduction of plates, and transform boundaries allow plates to slide horizontally past each other.
Density, Latitude & Longitude, Earth Layers And Plate Boundaries Learning Target: I can explain how tectonic plates move across the earth’s ● Obtain mass using a balance. surface. ● Obtain volume by any of these Notes: methods. ● Plate tectonics suggests that the - Ruler: Volume = L × W lithosphere is made of large ×H pieces of land (plates) that slowly move and interact with each other - Graduated Cylinder at their boundaries.
- Water displacement ● This plate motion causes it to
collide, pull apart, or scrape “Magic Circle” against each other.
- D=M/V Plate Movement
● 1. “Plates” of lithosphere are - M = D×V moved around by the underlying hot mantle convection cells. - V=M/D ● 2. The process of convection is responsible for plate tectonics. Vocabulary Divergent Boundaries ● Latitude - distance in degrees ● Found at mid-ocean ridges with North (Above) or South (Below) upwelling material creates a new from the equator. Latitude is like crust that moves away from the the steps of a ladder - the lines ridge in both directions. going left to right. 0 degrees at the equator to 90 degrees at the North Convergent Boundaries and South pole. ● There are three styles of convergent plate boundaries. ● Longitude - Distance in degrees - Continent - Continent East (Right) and West (Left) of Collision the prime Meridian to 180 degrees in the middle of the Pacific - Continent - Oceanic Ocean. crust collision
● Each degree of latitude and - Ocean - Ocean collision
longitude is broken up into 60 minutes. Subduction ● Plates collide at Convergent boundaries. Subduction occurs when a dense, oceanic plate subducts (plunges under) the less dense continental plate. Once deep enough the rock melts, becomes magma, rises through cracks in the crust and forms a volcano.
