To understand how plates move, here are more details about the Earth’s crust:

Lithosphere- made up of the crust and very top of the mantle- also known as a tectonic plate

Asthenosphere- hotter, softer layer of rock on which the lithosphere rests.

Ocean crust is ______Continent crust is ____

Label your drawing

Continental Drift-Alfred Wegener said that the continents used to be all together in one large landmass called: Pangaea

Evidence: Similar rocks and Similar fossilson different continents

Can you create Pangaea?

The Seafloor is spreading apartMid-Atlantic ridge- underwater mountain range

formed by convection currents in the asthenosphere

1. Divergent Boundarya. Ocean-ocean pulling apartb. Forms underwater mountain rangec. Mid- Atlantic Ridge

1. Divergent boundarya. Continent- continent pulling apartb. Forms a rift valleyc. Africa- Great Rift Valley

2.Convergent-a. ocean-ocean coming togetherb. Forms a trench and subduction zone Forms volcanic islandsc. Japan

2.Convergent Boundarymoving together

a. Continent- continent coming togetherb. Forms mountainsc. Himalayas- Mt. Everest

2. Convergent Boundarya. Ocean- continentb. Forms a trench and volcanic mountainsc. Washington State and Andes mountains in

South America

3.Transform boundarysliding past each other

b. Forms earthquakesc. San Andreas Fault in California

Identify each drawing as divergent, convergent or

transform