How do locations

of volcanoes,
earthquake
epicenters and
mountain ranges
affect humans?
Learning Targets
I Can…
- identify different types of
boundaries

- explain the different processes that

occur along plate boundaries
 Tectonic Plates
Plate Tectonic is the
theory that Earth’s outer
shell is divided into
several plates glide over
the mantle
 Tectonic Plates
A plate is part of the
lithosphere, which
includes the uppermost
mantle and the crust
above it.
How do plates move?
How do plates move?

CONVECTION CURRENTS
Hot material from deep
within the Earth rises while
cooler material near the
surface sinks
 How do plates move?
Tectonic plates interact at
locations called plate
boundaries

There are three types of

movement at plate boundaries
 What is a Boundary?

The border between two tectonic plates.

 Convergent Boundary

• the boundary between the Eurasian

Plate and the Indian Plate at the
Himalayas
• the boundary between the Nazca Plate
and the South American Plate along
the west coast of South America

A convergent boundary occurs where two plates are

pushing toward each other.
 Convergent Boundary

Continental vs. Continental

Continental vs. Oceanic
Oceanic vs. Oceanic
 Divergent Boundary
• the boundary between the African Plate and the
Arabian Plate in the Red Sea
• the Pacific and Antarctic Plates
• the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, made up of the
boundary between the North American and
Eurasian Plates in the North Atlantic, crossing
Iceland, and the South American and the African
Plates in the South Atlantic

A divergent boundary marks two plates that are

moving apart from each other.
 Transform Boundary

• the boundary between the Pacific Plate

and the Australian Plate, crossing New
Zealand
• the boundary between the Pacific Plate
and the North American Plate in
California

A transform boundary occurs where two plates slide

past each other.