Plate Boundaries and Topographic Maps

Digging Into Details: The Plate Tectonics

Important Vocab Words:
Asthenosphere- Plastic-like layer under the Earth’s Crust
Lithosphere- the outermost layer of the Earth (Plates). Can
be continental or Oceanic

Digging Into Details: The Plate Tectonics

Types of Plate Boundaries

Where plates move AWAY
from each other

Where plates move TOWARD
each other

Where plates SLIDE past
each other

Digging Into Details: The Plate Tectonics

Types of Plate Boundaries

Rifts, ridges and underwater
mountain chains and volcanoes

African Rift Valley.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Mountains, trenches,
volcanoes

Mount Everest (Himalayas)
Mariana Trench
Mt. Fuji

Fault lines, Earthquakes
San Andreas Fault

TEKS 8.9 C: Interpret topographic maps and satellite views to identify land and erosional features

and predict how these features may be reshaped by weathering.

Contour Interval-elevation between contour lines.

The smaller the
circle, the higher
the elevation

Sample Problem

Problem: YOU DO!