1. DIVERGENT Plate Boundaries

2. WORKSHEET – Plate Boundaries and Earth's Land Features
DIVERGENT - DAY
WORKSHEET – Plate Boundaries and Earth's Land Features

3. Divergent = DIVIDE (dives apart)

4. What type of motion do you see?
Diagram Divergent

5. WORKSHEET – Plate Boundaries and Earth's Land Features
Now answer the first box with a diagram.
Fill in Boxes 1 and 2 

6. http://www. bing. com/videos/search
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7. Fissure:    a long, narrow opening made by cracking or splitting in rock or earth.
Volcanoes – caused by Magma rising at divergent boundary.
Box # 3

8. Also  # 3
This forms Ocean Basins
 And NEW Seafloor
                                                            
                                                             #5  Mid Atlantic Ridge is in                                                                     the middle of the
                                                                      Atlantic ocean

11. Happens on land. Magma makes new land & volcanoes
Box # 4 & 6
Islandic Rift – Iceland (land)
African Rift Valley (land)
                                                                  
      

12. (Or Icelandic Rift)

13. Where is the youngest ocean floor????

14. Check your work! 1. Type of Boundary: Divergent 2. Motion: Moves away
3.  Land Feature:         New seafloor    5. Actual Example:   Mid Atlantic        (under water)      & ridges &                                                         Ridge                               ocean basins fissures & volcanos 
                                
4.   Land Feature:   Rifting & volcanos   6.  Actual Example:   Icelandic         (on land)                                                                                 and African Rift

15. Draw this picture in your journal Can you identify the boundary
Draw this picture in your journal Can you identify the boundary?  Can you identify the plates?

16. Edusmart notes – Divergent (Show Mrs. DeLeon when you’re done) pg. ___
What is a divergent boundary?
Draw a picture of what that looks like.
Where are the majority located?
What happens at a Mid-Ocean Ridge?
What landforms are created by the movement of divergent plates?
Click on Edusmart (desktop)
Click on Effects of Plate Tectonics
Click on Divergent Plate Boundaries

17. Edusmart – DIVERGENT Vocabulary pg.____
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Click on Effects of Plate Tectonics
Click on Vocab-o-saurus (yellow “V” icon on the bottom left)
Go to vocab-o-saurus (V icon)
Write in your journal:
Divergent
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift Valley
Visual
Facts
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