Plate

Tectonics
Liz LaRosa for use with my 5th Grade Science Class h<p://www.middleschoolscience.com 2009

Tectonic Plates

Plate Tectonics
Greek tektonikos of a builder Pieces of the lithosphere that move around Each plate has a name Fit together like jigsaw puzzles Float on top of mantle similar to ice cubes in a bowl of water

ConLnental DriN
Alfred Wegener 1900s Continents were once a single land mass that drifted apart. Fossils of the same plants and animals are found on dierent continents Called this supercontinent Pangea, Greek for all Earth 245 Million years ago Split again Laurasia & Gondwana 180 million years ago
http://members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml

Evidence of Pangea

Sea Floor Spreading

Sea Floor Spreading

Mid Ocean Ridges underwater mountain chains that run through the Earths Basins Magma rises to the surface and solidies and new crust forms Older Crust is pushed farther away from the ridge

How Plates Move

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/unanswered.html

Dierent Types of Boundaries

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html

Divergent Boundary Arabian and African Plates

Divergent Boundary Iceland

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html

Divergent Boundary - Oceanic

http://www.geology.com

Divergent Boundary - ConLnental

http://www.geology.com

Convergent Boundary Indian and Eurasian Plates

Convergent Boundary Oceanic & ConLnental

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html & http://www.geology.com

Convergent Boundary Oceanic & Oceanic

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html & http://www.geology.com

Convergent Boundaries - ConLnental

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html & http://www.geology.com

Transform Boundary San Andreas Fault

www.geology.com

Review
Name the 3 main layers of the Earth What is a tectonic plate? What was Pangea? What is Sea-Floor spreading? Name the three dierent types of plate boundaries and one locaLon on Earth for each one