Earth's Landforms

Earth's Landforms

Earth's Landforms​

Landforms

​Are physical features that make up the Earth's surface.

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The Earth's Crust is broken down into tectonic plates,

when these large plates move apart or bump into each other Landforms are created.​

Earth's Landforms

hOW LANDFORMS ARE CREATED?

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These plates sit on the asthenosphere and move in different directions

What is Pangaea?

• About 225 million years ago, all of the Earth’s landmasses were joined into one landmass called Pangaea.

• As time went on, the continents separated and moved to their current locations.

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• Divergent plate boundaries are areas where two plates move away from each other.

• As they move apart, a new crust is formed by magma that is pushed up.

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What are Divergent Plates?

• Convergent plate boundaries are areas where two plates push towards each other.

• As they push towards, a new mountain range forms.

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What are Convergent Plates?

• Volcanoes form when one tectonic plate moves under another.

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What are Convergent Plates?

• ​Subduction:

• The thin oceanic plate moves under the thicker continental plate. When this happens, the ocean plate sinks into the mantle.

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What are Convergent Plates?