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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 ______

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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 ____. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: To understand how plates move, here are more details about the Earth’s crust:

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 ____

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Label your drawing

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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?

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

formed by convection currents in the asthenosphere

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

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

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

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2.Convergent Boundarymoving together

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

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

South America

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3.Transform boundarysliding past each other

b. Forms earthquakesc. San Andreas Fault in California

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Identify each drawing as divergent, convergent or

transform

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