T YPES OF P LATE MOVEMENT If plates can move apart, what other types of movement are possible?

TYPES OF PLATE MOVEMENTIf plates can move apart, what other types of movement are possible?

Moving toward each other; Moving underneath another; Moving up or down relative to the other.

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Divergence Plates moving away from each other.

South America is moving away from Africa

Convergence

Plates moving toward each other.

Juan de Fuca Plate is moving below North American Plate

Transform Plates moving north or south relative to each other.

The Pacific Plate is moving north relative to the North American Plate.

WHAT EFFECTS CAN PLATE TECTONICS HAVE ON GEOGRAPHY?

Build volcanoes when one plate “subducts” under another:

THAT’S HOW WE GOT OUR COASTAL VOLCANOES, (NOW MOUNTAINS):

OUR VOLCANOES ARE NOW DORMANT, SO WE CONSIDER THEM JUST “MOUNTAINS.”

Eg: Garibaldi, Mount Baker, Mount Saint Helen’s.

“SUBDUCTION:” “SUB” AS IN “BELOW”

WHEN PLATES COME TOGETHER, BUT THEY’RE OF SIMILAR THICKNESS AND WEIGHT, ONE DOESN’T SINK BELOW THE OTHER. INSTEAD…

The continental crusts push upward, forming…

Mountains.

INDIA WASN’T ALWAYS ATTACHED TO EURASIA

MOUNT EVEREST, THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD, IS THE RESULT: 8,848 M

WHAT HAPPENS AT TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES?

Tension builds, then every once in a while, there is …

An earthquake

You can see the San Andreas Fault from the air:

NOTE THE LATERAL MOVEMENT OF ONE SIDE OF THE FIELD COMPARED TO THE OTHER:

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Divergence Plates moving away from each other. Causes “new land.”

South America is moving away from Africa

Convergence

Plates moving toward each other. Causes volcanoes when subducting; causes mountains when both plates rise together.

Juan de Fuca Plate is moving below North American Plate

Transform Plates moving north or south relative to each other. Causes earthquakes

The Pacific Plate is moving north relative to the North American Plate.

YOUTUBE:THE EARTH 650,000,000 YEARS AGO TO 250,000,000+ YEARS AGO.

FREE APP TO OBSERVE PLATE TECTONICS FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS AT YOUR OWN PACE: EARTHVIEWER

This website allows you to drag continents around, (need “Shockwave installed.)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/#