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Department of Education Subject: SCIENCE 10 WEEK NO. 4 Module Duration: 1 week
Region III
Topic/s: Plate Boundaries and Interactions

Reference/s: MELC, Exploring Life Through Science 10, Google images

A Learning Module in
Learning Competencies: At the end of this module, each learner should be
SCIENCE able to:
1. Describe the different types of plate boundaries.
Values: help promote disaster preparedness.
GRADE 10
QUARTER 1 MODULE 4 Lesson Plate Boundaries and
4 Interaction
NAME: _________________________________________________
Tectonic plates can move between 1 and 10 cm per year, on top of
SECTION:_________________________________________________ the asthenosphere. Plates move with respect to each other in three ways:
ADDRESS:_________________________________________________ they move toward each other (converge), move apart (diverge), or move
past one other (transform). The region between plates are called plate
RECEIVED DATE: _____________ SUBMISSION DATE: _____________ boundaries. Furthermore, as the plates move, fractures on the Earth’s crust
develop, these are called faults.
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LESTER DAN S. PALAGANAS MILAGROS E. CABUSLAY  Divergent Plate Boundary

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Two plates that move away from each other create a gap or a
Recommending Approval: Approved: rift between them. When the gap eventually widens, it then evolves
into a rift valley. Divergent boundaries between oceanic plates
LIGAYA B. AUSTRIA MARY ANN C. PABALAN produce mid-oceanic ridges, which we refer to mountain ranges
School Director School Administrator formed under water.

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 If there are two continents located on these plates, they are pulled
apart.
 Any continent or landmass above a divergent plate boundary will be
literally torn apart into distinct landmasses.
 Surrounding water will fill the space between them and later become
an ocean.
 The Great East African Rift Valley is an example of this
phenomenon.
There are three possible cases:
 Millions of years from now on, East Africa and West
Africa may be separated from each other by an
ocean.
 Eurasia and North America move away from each
other at a rate of 5 cm per year. As a result, the
Atlantic Ocean is getting wider.
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 Convergent Plate Boundaries
Occur where two plates slide towards each other and form
either a subduction zone (if one plates moves underneath the other) or
an orogenic belt (If the two simply collide and compress).
 An orogenic belt is a region of deformed rocks.
 Oceanic-oceanic
 Oceanic-continental
 Continental-continental
OCEANIC-CONTINENTAL CONVERGENCE
 When two oceanic plates collide, a subduction zone is formed.
 The descending oceanic plate begins to melt upon contact with the
asthenosphere.
 The molten material begins to rise, creating a chain of volcanoes.
 An oceanic trench, a long, narrow depression in the ocean floor is also
created at the subduction zone.
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OCEANIC-OCEANIC CONVERGENCE

 When two oceanic plates collide, a subduction zone is formed.

 The descending oceanic plate begins to melt upon contact with the
 In an oceanic-continental subduction, the oceanic plate goes down.
asthenosphere.
 As the denser oceanic plate subducts beneath the continental plate
 The molten material begins to rise, creating a chain of
and descends into the mantle, the temperature increases, causing the
volcanoes.
rocks to melt and form magma.
 Through time, volcanic debris from the eruption of underwater or
 This hot and less dense magma will eventually seek a vent (the
submarine volcanoes pile up until an island volcano rises above sea
volcanoes), to reach the surface.
level.
 The edges of the Pacific Plate are subduction zones; hence, chains of
 An oceanic trench, a long, narrow depression in the ocean floor is also
volcanoes are found above it.
created at the subduction zone.
 The collision of an oceanic plate with a continental plate also forms
trenches.
 The interaction of the Pacific Plate and the Philippine
 Volcanic mountains also develop on land.
Plate is an example of an oceanic-oceanic
convergence.
 The Mariana trench in the western Pacific Ocean
 Andes Mountains in South America and the Cascade
originated from this type of convergence.
Range in North America are formed through this type
of convergence.

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CONTINENTAL-CONTINENTAL CONVERGENCE

 When two continental plates collide, no subduction happens. Instead,

the continents suture themselves.
 The continental crust buckles and rocks pile up, creating towering
mountain ranges.

 The Alps in Europe is formed from the convergence

of the African Plate and Eurasian Plate.
 The Himalayas in Asia is the result of the collision
between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate.

 Transform Plate Boundary

The plates slide against each other in opposite directions. No

mountains or volcanoes are produced. Instead, earthquakes result from
the movement of plates and release massive amount of energy.