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Plate Tectonics “Building Up and Tearing Down” Tectonic Plates Brittle vs. Ductile Ductile: Relatively flexible. –Ex: A denim pencil –Ex: Silly Putty Brittle: easily. Breaks relatively –Ex: A wooden pencil –Ex: Peanut Brittle (Yum) Continental vs. Oceanic Plates Less Dense Thicker (35-70 km) Brittle (Not “Stretchy”) Much Older (3.7 billion years old) More Dense Thinner (5-10 km) Ductile (A Bit “Stretchy”) Much Younger (144 million years old) Page 173 Transform (Fault) Plate Boundaries Convergent Plate Boundaries Plate Movement Observations Wrinkled Edges Both Go Up Black Goes Down Divergent Plate Boundaries Divergent Plate Boundaries are where the plates are moving (Drifting) apart. Mid-Ocean Ridge Mid-Ocean Ridge Iceland Rift Valley Great Rift Valley Convergent Plate Boundaries Convergent Plate Boundaries are where the plates are colliding (coming together). Subduction Zone Crater Lake (Near Bend, OR) Folded Mountains Himalayan Mountains Island Arcs Aleutian Islands (AK) Transform (Fault) Plate Boundaries Transform (Fault) Plate Boundaries are where the plates are sliding past each other. (Like two trains going past each other, I know it’s a stretch). San Andreas Fault Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Along the Edges) New Zealand. . . Maybe? (Alpine Fault) Earth’s Tectonic Plates Plate Movement Plate Movement Plate Movement (ScienceSaurus 185) Plate Movement Model Lab Big Idea (Inquiry 15.1) Plate tectonics lead to formation of land and landforms as well as the destruction of crust. It is important to know which landforms are created at which types of plate boundaries. There are some interactive websites that are helpful with this topic.