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Earth Science: Density, Latitude, Tectonics

The document discusses key concepts in earth science including plate tectonics, plate boundaries, and plate movement. It explains that plates move due to convection currents in the mantle and interact at boundaries where they can collide, pull apart, or slide past one another. Specifically, it notes that divergent boundaries form new crust at mid-ocean ridges, convergent boundaries involve collision or subduction of plates, and transform boundaries allow plates to slide horizontally past each other.

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Earth Science: Density, Latitude, Tectonics

The document discusses key concepts in earth science including plate tectonics, plate boundaries, and plate movement. It explains that plates move due to convection currents in the mantle and interact at boundaries where they can collide, pull apart, or slide past one another. Specifically, it notes that divergent boundaries form new crust at mid-ocean ridges, convergent boundaries involve collision or subduction of plates, and transform boundaries allow plates to slide horizontally past each other.

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Earth Science Notes 

  Earth Science Notes 2 


Density, Latitude & Longitude,  
Earth Layers And Plate Boundaries Learning Target:​ ​I can explain how
tectonic plates move across the earth’s
● Obtain mass using a balance. surface.
● Obtain volume by any of these Notes​:
methods. ● Plate tectonics suggests that the
- Ruler: Volume​ = L × W lithosphere is made of large
×H pieces of land (plates) that slowly
move and interact with each other
- Graduated Cylinder at their boundaries.

- Water displacement ● This plate motion causes it to


collide, pull apart, or scrape
“Magic Circle” against each other.

- D=M/V Plate Movement


● 1. ​“Plates” of lithosphere are
- M = D×V moved around by the underlying
hot mantle convection cells.
- V=M/D
● 2. ​The process of convection is
responsible for plate tectonics.
Vocabulary
Divergent Boundaries
● Latitude​ - ​distance in degrees ● Found at mid-ocean ridges with
North (Above) or South (Below) upwelling material creates a new
from the equator. Latitude is like crust that moves away from the
the steps of a ladder - the lines ridge in both directions.
going left to right. 0 degrees at the
equator to 90 degrees at the North Convergent Boundaries
and South pole. ● There are three styles of
convergent plate boundaries.
● Longitude​ - ​Distance in degrees - Continent -​ Continent
East (Right) and West (Left) of Collision
the prime Meridian to 180 degrees
in the middle of the Pacific - Continent - ​Oceanic
Ocean. crust collision

● Each degree of latitude and - Ocean - ​Ocean collision


longitude is broken up into 60
minutes. Subduction
● Plates collide at Convergent
boundaries. Subduction occurs
when a dense, oceanic plate
subducts (plunges under) the less
dense continental plate. Once
deep enough the rock melts,
becomes magma, rises through
cracks in the crust and forms a
volcano.

● Transform boundaries occur when


plates slide past each other​.

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