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THIS PICTURE SHOWS
WHERE DIFFERENT PLATES
ARE LOCATED. THEY ARE
ALL CONNECTED MAKING
THEM LOOK LIKE A LARGE
PUZZLE. THESE PLATES ARE
ALWAYS MOVING.
COLLIDING AT
CONVERGING BOUNDRIES
PULLING APART A
DIVERGING BOUNDRIES
AND SLIDING PAST EACH
OTHER AT TRANSFORM
BOUNDRIES
THIS IMAGE IS OF PLATES FROM PLATE TECTONICS
CONVERGING. WHEN PLATES CONVERGE THEY CRASH
TOGETHER. THIS CAN CAUSE EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS.
THE OLDER CRUST USUALLY GETS PUSHED DOWN OR FARTHER
AWAY WHEN THIS HAPPENS. AS SHOWN IN THE PICTURE THE
LITHOSPHERE CRASH TOGETHER AS THEY FLOAT ON THE
ASTHENOSPHERE.
PANGEA IS AN EXAMPLE OF
PLATE TECTONICS. PANGEA
WAS BELIEVED TO ONCE
HAVE BEEN A LARGE LAND
MASS OF ALL THE
CONTINENTS. THESE PLATES
THEN MOVED APART,
DIVERGED. THEN WENT
TOGETHER, CONVERGED.
AND SLIDE PAST EACH
OTHER, TRANSFORMED. TO
MAKE THE CONTINENTS OF
TODAY.
THIS PICTURE SHOWS TRANSFORM BOUNDRY. THIS IS WHEN
TWO PLATES SLIDE PAST EACH OTHER HORISONTALLY. THIS
CAUSE A LARGE AMOUNT OF FRICTION. TECTONIC PLATES
HAVE IRREGULAR EDGES. THEY GRIND TOGETHER AND JERK
AS THEY SLIDE. THE FRICTION AND THE MOVEMENT CAN
CAUSE EARTHQUAKES.
THIS PICTURE SHOWS PLATE TECTONICS DIVERGING, OR
PULLING APART. WHEN THIS HAPPENS THE NEW PLATES ARE
CLOSEST TO THE FALT LINE AND THE OLDER PLATES GET
PUSHED AWAY. DIVERGING PLATES CAN MAKE
UNDERWATER VALLEYS. THESE PLATES SEPARATE VERY
SLOWLY SOME ONLY A CENTIMETER A YEAR. MAGMA FILLS
UP THROUGH THE FALT.
THIS IS ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE LOCATION OF DIFFERENT
PLATES. BUT THIS MAP SHOWS WHERE VOLCANOES ARE
COMPARED TO THE PLATES. THIS MAP SHOWS THAT THE
VOLCANOES ARE LOCATED MAINLY ON THE TECTONIC PLATES.
THE RING OF FIRE IS LOCATED ALL AROUND PLATES. SO I THINK
THAT TECTONIC PLATES AFFECT WHERE VOLCANOES ARE.