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1 By: Kenyon, Anthony, Mary, Clarissa, and Tyler
PLATE TECTONICS By: Kenyon, Anthony, Mary, Clarissa, and Tyler

2 Itinerary Day 1- Take a plane to Australia. Take a bus to the nearest hotel and stay for the night. Day 2- Rent a car and go see the mountains of Australia. Go back to the hotel and pack. Day 3- Take a plane to Krafla, Iceland. Take a submarine tour and see the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Day 4- take a plane to Africa. Visit Mount Kilimanjaro/ Mount Kenya. Day 5- Pack and fly to Europe. When you arrive, take a hike to the Azores Plateau. Then camp for the night. Day 6-In the morning, pack your sleeping bag, and head to South America. When you get there, take a boat out to the ocean, and go scuba diving to see the under water geysers. Day 7- Pack your bags because your coming home!!!!

3 AFRICAN PLATE Rate of movement: 2.15 cm per year, it moves west
Africa has convergent and divergent plate boundaries. Some examples are: Mount Kenya, and Mount Kilimanjaro. These mountains are do to convergent boundaries.

4 North American Plate Rate of movement: 1
North American Plate Rate of movement: cm per year, moving westward The North American plate includes part of Siberia. The north American plate is 2/3 land mass covering both the United States and Canada.

5 Eurasian Plate Rate of movement: 0.95 cm per year, moving east
This plate plus two others meet at the Azores plateau. This plate includes oceanic crust extending westward the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

6 South American Plate Rate of movement: 1.45 cm per year, going west
The east side of this plate is a divergent boundary with the African plate forming the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This plate is moving away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

7 Pacific Plate Rate of movement:8.10 cm. per year, it moves Northwest
The Northeastern side is a divergent boundary. This plate is the largest plate out of all. Its shrinking because of its margins. In the Southwest, the pacific plate has a complex convergent boundary.

8 Indo-Australian Plate Rate of movement: Average of 7 cm per year, moving Northeast
This plate collides with the Western edge of the Philippine Plate. This collision pushes up the ocean floor, above sea level, creating island chains, island arcs, and a twisted tumultuous sea floor.

9 Antarctic Plate Rate of movement: 1 cm per year, towards the Atlantic Ocean.
The Antarctic plate has a boundary with the pacific plate, which is a divergent boundary forming the Pacific- Antarctic plate.


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