Plate movement

This is a brief explamation to the Plate Tectonic Boundaries and movements.

Illustration about Plate movement. a cross section illustrating the main types of tectonic plate boundaries. convergent, divergent, and transform. Illustration of boundary, boundaries, divergent - 75589302

Expains the movement of the Earth’s crust and how the movement of the tectonic plates can cause geomorphological changes and how they could contribte to hazards. Relating to: “the causes and impacts of a geomorphological hazard on people, places and environments, and the effects of responses”

This physics inquiry activity asks students to engineer the fastest “train.”This activity is a quick, simple way to introduce tectonic plate movements and plate boundaries using maps of the ocean floor.

When two or more tectonic plates near the end of their life cycle, it creates a convergent boundary.

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There are 3 different types of plate movement: Convergent, Divergent, and Transform. Each of these types move in different ways. By now you might be wondering how do they move and when did they start...

This site has some great maps to use when teaching about tectonic plate movement and how those plate movements affected species' ranges!

Here's our hands-on studies of tectonic plate movements, 2nd grade style. We used: a tray with a thin layer of chilled jello (jelly) graham crackers for the earth's crustal plates colored icing (green-continents and blue-oceans) You can see LD putting the continent and ocean onto his plate (ie. graham cracker). We read about the plates and tectonic plate movement and looked carefully at this map. We talked about how when earth was one giant super-continent (Pangaea), India was actually…

During tectonic plate movements, strain is placed on the land around us. The strained materials deform in one way or another as energy is released by earthquakes, faults and folds. These forces change the landscape.