Plate Boundaries By: Miss Shrestha & Miss Morris

Plate Boundaries By: Miss Shrestha

& Miss Morris

Plate Boundaries

Sliding Boundaries Convergent Boundaries Divergent Boundaries

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

Convergent Boundaries

Plates pushing together. Plates pushing or colliding together form

earthquake and volcanoes.

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.

Divergent Boundaries Plates pulling apart. Plates separate to form volcanoes and minor

earthquakes. Example: Mid Atlantic ridge

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/flash/2_6.swf

Mountain Building New mountains form when plates pull apart magma

push out from below and the lava cools and turns to rock.

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_science/terc/content/visualizations/es1105/es1105page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization

Fault Block Mountains

Form when masses of rock move upor down along a fault.

Folded Mountains

Form when two tectonic plates collide.

Dome Mountains

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

Resources 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-colli

de.html http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/tectonics-

subduct.html http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/

movements.html http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=45024 http://www.mountain.org/education/subexplore/

explore02.cfm http://www.bigskycachers.com/indianhead.htm