Plate Tectonic Theory

PLATE TECTONIC THEORY

Pangaea

The 7 continent connected like a puzzle

Continental Drift Theory

This Theory reveals that the continents were connected like a puzzle, Pangaea, and they slowly drifted apart due to plate tectonic movement

Continental Drift Theory

The continents started to slowly drift apart to what we see today.

Proof of the Theories

During World War II they developed SONAR to look for Submarines and it proved Plate Tectonic and Continental Drift Theory

Plate Tectonic Theory

The Earth is not one solid piece but it is made up of slow moving labs of rock that ride over the pliable layer of the Earth.

Plate Tectonic

Plate movement could cause an Earthquake

Plate Tectonic

Plate movement can cause mountains to form

Plate Tectonic

Plate movement can cause waves to form

Plate Tectonic

Plate movement can cause volcanoes to errupt

Convergence

When 2 plate converge or smack together

Subduction

Continental plate is overrides an Oceanic Plate

Rifting

The pushing up and out of Plate Tectonic

Faulting

2 Plates Sliding back and forth against one another

Weathering The Breaking Up and Breaking Down of

Rock on the Earth’s surface into smaller and smaller pieces

Erosion The Movement of Weathered material by

water, wind, or ice.