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Plate Tectonics Chapter 16

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Page 1: Plate Tectonics Chapter 16. Continental Drift _________ proposed the theory that the crustal plates are moving over the mantle. This was supported by

Plate Tectonics

Chapter 16

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Continental Drift

_________ proposed the theory that the crustal plates are moving over the mantle. This was supported by fossil and rock type evidence; also matching of coastline shapes.

Wegener

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Convection Currents

The force responsible for plate movement is __________.

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Plate Boundaries

The following two slides show maps of the current major plate boundaries and their relative motions.

You should be able to describe various landforms created by different plate movements.

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Plate Boundaries

Divergent Boundary – moving _____ Convergent Boundary – moving

________ Transform Fault Boundary – moving

________________________

apart

together

sideways past each other

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Divergent boundary of two continental plates.

Creates a __________. Example: _____________rift valley East African Rift

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Convergent boundary of two oceanic plates.

Creates an ________ and a _____. Example: _____island arc trench Japan

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Convergent boundary of an oceanic plate and a continental plate. Forms a _______ mountain range and a ______. Examples: _______ or _______ Mts

volcanictrench Cascades Andes

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Convergent boundary of two continental plates. Forms a ______ mountain range. Examples: ___________, Alps, ______________

folded HimalayasAppalachians

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Trivia…

What’s the tallest mountain in the world?

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Transform-fault boundary where the North American and Pacific plates are moving ____ each other.

Example: ________________ in California

past

San Andreas Fault

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Plate Boundaries Review

Places where plates move apart are called _____________ boundaries.

When continental plates diverge a ___________ is formed.

When two oceanic plates converge what is created? _________________

The Appalachians formed mainly from continental plate collisions and therefore are a __________ mountain range.

The force moving the plates is ____________ .Convection currents

divergent

rift valley

an island arc and a trench

folded

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How did Hawaii form????

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Hot spot

volcanic regions thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is abnormally hot compared with the mantle elsewhere

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Yellowstone

National Park

Hot Spot

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Cinder-Cone Volcano

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Composite Volcanoes… blow their tops!

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Shield volcano

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