Plate Tectonics & Landforms

any natural feature of the earth's surface

• Landforms

• Rivers

• Sand Dune-

a vent in the crust of the earth from which usually molten or hot rock and steam is released

• Mountain

• Delta

• Volcano

a nearly flat plain of alluvial deposit between diverging branches of the mouth of a river

• Lake

• Delta

• River

Study of plates, their movement, and Earth’s features that they affect

• Plate boundaries

• Plate Tectonics

• Major mountains

the region where two lithospheric plates meet

• Continental Drift

• Plate tectonics

• Plate Boundaries

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and

moved

• Continental Drift

• Tectonic Plates

• Transform

Boundary between two plates where the plates are sliding past each other

• Divergent-

• Convergent-

• Transform-

Forms where plates are moving away from each other

• Divergent-

• Convergent-

• Transform-

Formed where two sections of Earth’s crust are colliding

• Divergent-

• Convergent-

• Transform-

Which of the following (2) jobs would a Geologist go?

• Studying rocks

• deep-sea diving

• help find buried resources, like coal, oil and metals

• study the human brain