Plate Tectonics Day 2

Plate Tectonics - Day 2

Unit 2 Topic 3
Explore and Explain

Draw

Underline or highlight the main ideas in the passage to help you create a summary.

Open Ended

List the 3 different plate boundaries. If you forget remember you can always check the One Note!

Match

Match the name of the tectonic plate boundary with their specific movement.

• Plates slide past each other

• Plates push against each other

• Plates pull away from each other

Transform Plate Boundary

Convergent Plate Boundary

Divergent Plate Boundary

• Transform Plate Boundary

• Convergent Plate Boundary

• Divergent Plate Boundary

Fill in the Blanks

What do you think happens or is formed when the plates move on a transform boundary?

Movement-

- Plates slide past each other

What can form/happen?

​-Earthquakes

Transform Boundary

Open Ended

Convergent Boundary - What forms when 2 convergent boundaries come together? (There is more than 1 correct answer)

They come towards each other.


The less-dense plate slides under the more dense plate

​​How do the plates move?

1. ​Mountain Chains

2. Volcanoes

​​What is formed?

​Convergent Boundaries

Convergent Boundaries

When a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate, the oceanic plate will sink below the continental plate.

 

The region where one plate dives beneath another is called a subduction zone.

 

As one plate is subducted beneath the other, the rock melts under heat and pressure and transforms into magma.

 

Volcanoes are often found near convergent continental and oceanic plates.

When 2 oceanic plates smash into each other, one plate will sink beneath the other plate (creating a subduction zone), and volcanoes will form (some will be underwater volcanoes)

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Convergent Boundaries

Multiple Select

What forms when 2 plates pull away from each other?

• underwater mountains

• seafloor spreading

• vallys

• a big sink hole

Divergent Boundary

What is the movement on a divergent boundary?

 

 

Deep cracks form in Earth's crust as the plates separate. Called rift zones or rifts (form on continents or in ocean basins)

 

In the ocean, these rifts form underwater mountain chains (referred to as seafloor spreading)

 

Divergent Boundary

On the continental plates, a rift valley is formed in between 2 mountain ranges. 

Match

Match the name of the tectonic plate boundary with their specific movement.

• Plates slide past each other

• Plates push against each other

• Plates pull away from each other

Transform Plate Boundary

Convergent Plate Boundary

Divergent Plate Boundary

• Transform Plate Boundary

• Convergent Plate Boundary

• Divergent Plate Boundary

​https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/earth/plates-on-the-move2/game

Open Ended

Let's play a Gimkit! As we get started please answer this last question....

What was your muddiest point?

What do you still need help understanding from today's lesson?