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1 Plate Boundaries By: Miss Shrestha & Miss Morris

2 Plate Boundaries Sliding Boundaries Convergent Boundaries Divergent Boundaries

3 Sliding Boundaries Plates sliding sideways against each other. Plates rubbing together form earthquakes. Example: San Andreas Fault in California.

4 Convergent Boundaries Plates pushing together. Plates pushing or colliding together form earthquake and volcanoes.

5 Convergent Boundaries Plates push together to form mountains. Example: Rocky and Himalayas Mountains. When continental and oceanic plates collide the thinner plate slides under the other plate. This is called subduction.

6 Divergent Boundaries Plates pulling apart. Plates separate to form volcanoes and minor earthquakes. Example: Mid Atlantic ridge

7 Plate Boundaries 1. Click on the website below. 2. Click on the next view bottom at the lower right hand side to watch other plate movements. http://www.wwnorton.com/college/geo/egeo/fl ash/2_6.swf

8 Mountain Building New mountains form when plates pull apart magma push out from below and the lava cools and turns to rock.

9 Mountain Building When plates push together, one plate is pushed beneath the other one, and this creates mountains. Visit the following website: http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_scien ce/terc/content/visualizations/es1105/es11 05page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization

10 Fault Block Mountains Form when masses of rock move upor down along a fault.

11 Folded Mountains Form when two tectonic plates collide.

12 Dome Mountains Form when the surface is lifted up by magma, forming a bulge.

13 Resources http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/ map_plate_tectonics_world.html http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/ map_plate_tectonics_world.html http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/tectonics- slide.html http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/tectonics- slide.html http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/tectonics- collide.html http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/tectonics- collide.html http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/tectonics- subduct.html http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/tectonics- subduct.html http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/movements.ht ml http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/movements.ht ml http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=45024 http://www.mountain.org/education/subexplore/explore02. cfm http://www.mountain.org/education/subexplore/explore02. cfm http://www.bigskycachers.com/indianhead.htm


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