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How the Earth Changes Over Time
1. What is the crust divided into? Tectonic Plates
2. When the crust was all connected it was called
Pangea
3. Explain the process of how the Earth’s Crust moves through the mantle?
Boundary Types
Direction of
Plate
Movement
Convection Currents
Type of Crust
Landforms Created
Oceanic/Continental
Or Both
1. C-C
Convergent
http://geology.com/plate-tectonics.shtml
2. O-C
3. O-O
1. Mountains
Earthquakes
2. Volcanoes “Ring of Fire”
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Ocean Trench/Valley
Island/Island Arc
Subduction Zone
Mountains
3. Volcanoes “Ring of Fire”
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Ocean Trench/Valley
Island/Island Arc
Subduction Zone
Areas/plates that
experiences this
boundary type
1. Eurasian –Indian
“Himalayans”
2. A) South AmericaNazca “Andes
Mountains”
B) North American –
Pacific
Alaska: “ Aleutian Islands”
Japan: “Kuril Island
(volcanic island Chain)”
C) Caribbean –South Am
“Caribbean Volcanic Arc”
D) North American- Juan
De Fuca “Cascade
Volcanoes”
3. Eurasian/ Philippine
–Pacific
NAME_________________________________________________________________________________ D__________P______
How the Earth Changes Over Time
Boundary Types
Direction of
Plate
Movement
Type of Crust
Landforms Created
Oceanic/Continental
Or Both
1. C-C
Divergent
http://geology.com/plate-tectonics.shtml
2. O-C and
O-O
1. Rift Valley
Linear Lakes
Volcanoes
Sea
Areas/plates that
experiences this
boundary type
1. African-Arabian
“ Great East
African Rift Valley”
“Red Sea”
North AmericaEurasian “ Iceland
Rift Valley”
2. Mid Ocean Ridge
Sea Floor Spreading
2. North AmericanEurasian, South
AmericanAfrican “ MidAtlantic Ridge”
All
Transform
Earthquakes and Faults
1. AustralianPacific “Alpine
Fault”
2. North American
– Pacific “San
Andreas Fault”
NAME_________________________________________________________________________________ D__________P______
How the Earth Changes Over Time
http://geology.com/plate-tectonics.shtml