Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics
1. 2. 3.
Motion
of Plates
Crusts
involve
How do plates move then?
• Due to tremendous heat, rock in the
asthenosphere is like hot taffy
• This allows plates to ride on top of hot,
flowing rock.
• Plates move because heat is being released
from deep inside the earth.
• Convection currents causes hot material to
rise and expand (plates diverge) and cooler
material to sink and contract (plates
converge).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ryrXAGY1dmE
All of this new information helped to
create the Theory of Plate Tectonics
Plates Move Apart
Boundaries are
formed when
tectonic plates
move. The
direction of
the movement
determines
the type of
boundary.
1. Divergent Boundary: plates move apart
2 continental plates
collide crumpling
and folding the
rock between them.
Mountains could
form.
Continued