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• Plates are
made of rigid
lithosphere.
The lithosphere is
made up of the
crust and the upper
part of the mantle.
What lies beneath the tectonic plates?
• Below the
lithosphere
(which makes
up the tectonic
plates) is the
asthenosphere.
Plate Movement
• “Plates” of lithosphere are moved around by
the underlying hot convection cells in the
astenosphere.
DO NOW Tuesday November 19th
1. What type of boundary results in the formation
of mountains?
2. What type of boundary results in the formation
of deep ocean trenches and volcanoes?
3. What type of boundary results in the formation
of the mid ocean and sea floor spreading?
4. What type of boundary results in the formation
of a fault ilne and earthquakes?
TODAY’S PLAN
•I can define plate tectonics.
•I can identify types of plate boundaries.
•I can explain the movement of plates at the different
types of boundaries
•I can relate movement of plates to features/events that
occur at the plate boundaries.
TODAYS DO
•Finish/review discussion of Plate Boundaries
•Oreo Plate Tectonics
•Kahoot review of plate boundaries
Three types of plate boundary
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
Divergent Boundaries
Courtesy of
www.ngdc.noaa.gov
Convergent Boundaries
• Plates colliding together
• May form mountains, trenches, and/or
volcanoes
Convergent Boundaries
• There are three styles of convergent
plate boundaries
– Continent-continent collision
– Continent-oceanic crust collision
– Ocean-ocean collision
Continent-Continent Collision
• Forms mountains, e.g. European Alps, Himalayas
Continent-Oceanic Crust Collision
• Called SUBDUCTION
• Forms volcanoes and deep ocean
trenches
Subduction
• Oceanic lithosphere
subducts underneath the
continental lithosphere
• Oceanic lithosphere heats
and melts forming magma
• The magma rises forming
volcanoes
• E.g. The Andes
Ocean-Ocean Plate Collision
• When two oceanic plates collide, one runs over the
other which causes it to sink into the mantle
forming a subduction zone.
• The subducting plate is bent downward to form a
very deep depression in the ocean floor called a
deep ocean trench.
• The worlds deepest parts of the ocean are found
along trenches.
– E.g. The Mariana Trench is 11 km deep!
Volcanoes
form all
along the
ocean-
ocean
convergent
plate
boundaries
(subduction
zones).
Ocean-Continent Convergence
The Andes
Mountains/
volcanoes
Transform Plate Boundary
Figure showing
the distribution of
earthquakes
around the globe
Hotspot
volcanoes
What are Hotspot Volcanoes?
• Hot mantle plumes breaching the
surface in the middle of a tectonic plate