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Piecing Together the Plates
byLisa McCready
What We’ve Discovered…
• Our Earth is covered with plates
• The borders between the plates are also known as “ ”
• There are three main types
• Oceanic vs. Continental
• Oceanic vs. Oceanic
• “ ”
• What happens here?
CONVERGENT
DIVERGENT
• In the Oceans
• On the Continents
• What happens here?
TRANSFORM
• What happens here?
What are Plates?Type of Crust Average Thickness Average Age Major Component
Continental Crust 20-80 kilometers 3 billion years Granite
Oceanic Crust
10 kilometers
Generally 70 to 100 million years old Basalt
Activity Time• Map the 15 most well known plates
• Discover their names
• Figure out some boundary types
• Develop a phrase to help you remember the plate names
• http://www.kidsknowit.com/educational-songs/index.php?topic=Geology
http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/howell/goodies/elearning/module04swf.swf
QUESTIONS?
http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/1595682/5390276
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Citations• Slide Background Image:• http://www.freewebs.com/morganisrupert/597340%5B1%5D.jpg• Convergent, Divergent, Transform Images:• http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:FI_6AVFpQZz_eM:http://www.nasa.gov/images
/content/65872main_Convergent_Boundary.gif• Answer Key (Map with Plate Names):• http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/images/new_map.jpg• 3-D Picture:• http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/deathvalley/html/thumbs.htm• Ideas/Definitions:• http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/plate.html• http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/tectonic.html• http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/F_Earth_Has_Faults.html• What are Plates Images:• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.sh
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What are Plates?
• http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/structure.html