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    Assignment: (Science) 6/20/2019 1. Define Plate Tectonics.

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    Plate tectonics describes the large-scale motions of Earth's tectonic plates. There are seven major plates: Pacific, North American, Eurasian, African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, and South American. Alfred Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift. There are three types of plate boundaries: divergent boundaries where plates move apart and new crust is formed, convergent boundaries where plates collide and mountains are formed, and transform boundaries where plates slide past each other.

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    Plate tectonics describes the large-scale motions of Earth's tectonic plates. There are seven major plates: Pacific, North American, Eurasian, African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, and South American. Alfred Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift. There are three types of plate boundaries: divergent boundaries where plates move apart and new crust is formed, convergent boundaries where plates collide and mountains are formed, and transform boundaries where plates slide past each other.

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    Assignment: (Science) 6/20/2019

    1. Define Plate Tectonics.


    - Plate tectonics is a scientific theory describing
    the large-scale motion of seven large plates and
    the movements of a larger number of smaller
    plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic
    processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5
    billion years ago.

    2. Enumerate the Big Plate Tectonics in our Planet.


    - These plates comprise the bulk of the continents
    and the Pacific Ocean. For purposes of this list,
    a major plate is any plate with an area greater
    than 20 million km2.
    Pacific Plate – An oceanic tectonic plate under the
    Pacific Ocean – 103,300,000 km2.
    North American Plate – Large tectonic plate
    including most of North America, Greenland and a
    bit of Siberia – 75,900,000 km2. Eurasian
    Plate – A tectonic plate which includes most of the
    continent of Eurasia – 67,800,000 km2
    African Plate – Tectonic plate underlying Africa
    west of the East African Rift – 61,300,000 km2
    Antarctic Plate – A tectonic plate containing the
    continent of Antarctica and extending outward
    under the surrounding oceans – 60,900,000 km2.
    Indo-Australian Plate – A major tectonic plate
    formed by the fusion of the Indian and Australian
    plates – 58,900,000 km2 often considered two
    plates:
    - -- Australian Plate – A major tectonic plate,
    originally a part of the ancient continent of
    Gondwana – 47,000,000 km2.
    Indian Plate – A major tectonic plate once part of
    the supercontinent Gondwana – 11,900,000 km2
    South American Plate – A major tectonic plate
    which includes most of South America and a large
    part of the south Atlantic – 43,600,000 km2

    3. Who is Alfred Wegener?


    - Alfred Wegener, in full Alfred Lothar
    Wegener, (born November 1, 1880, Berlin,
    Germany—died November 1930, Greenland),
    German meteorologist and geophysicist who
    formulated the first complete statement of
    the continental drifthypothesis.

    4. Describe the 3 Types of Boundaries.

    There are three kinds of plate tectonic boundaries:


    divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries.

    - A divergent boundary occurs when two


    tectonic plates move away from each other.
    Along these boundaries, lava spews from long
    fissures and geysers spurt superheated water.
    Frequent earthquakes strike along the rift.
    Beneath the rift, magma—molten rock—rises
    from the mantle. It oozes up into the gap and
    hardens into solid rock, forming new crust on
    the torn edges of the plates. Magma from the
    mantle solidifies into basalt, a dark, dense rock
    that underlies the ocean floor. Thus at divergent
    boundaries, oceanic crust, made of basalt, is
    created.
    - When two plates come together, it is known as
    a convergent boundary. The impact of the two
    colliding plates buckles the edge of one or both
    plates up into a rugged mountain range, and
    sometimes bends the other down into a deep
    seafloor trench. A chain of volcanoes often
    forms parallel to the boundary, to the mountain
    range, and to the trench. Powerful earthquakes
    shake a wide area on both sides of the
    boundary.
    - Two plates sliding past each other forms
    a transform plate boundary. Natural or
    human-made structures that cross a transform
    boundary are offset—split into pieces and
    carried in opposite directions. Rocks that line
    the boundary are pulverized as the plates grind
    along, creating a linear fault valley or undersea
    canyon. As the plates alternately jam and jump
    against each other, earthquakes rattle through a
    wide boundary zone. In contrast to convergent
    and divergent boundaries, no magma is formed.
    Thus, crust is cracked and broken at transform
    margins, but is not created or destroyed.

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