Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Plate Tectonics
- Volcanoes
- Composite
- Infrequent Erruptions but violent
- Thick, sticky Larva
- Shield
- Frequent Erruptions
- Thin Runny Larva
- Inside the earth
- In the mantle there is a convection
current where the hot air rises and
sinks when it cools
- The crust is split into 14 major
plates and 38 minor plates
- Key Terms
- Crust
- Outer layer of the earth
- Plate
- A section of the
earth's crust
- Plate Margin
- The boundary where 2 plates meet
- Mantle
- The dense layer
- Semi-liquid layer
- Convection currents
- The process of air
rising and sinking
- Crust
- Oceanic Crust
- Newer- generally less than 200 million years old
- Can possibly sink
- Denser
- Can be renewed and destroyed
- Continental Crust
- Can't sink
- Older - More than
1500 million years old
- Less dense
- Cannot be destroyed
or renewed
- Plate Margins
- Destructive
Plate Margins
- Where the plates
move towards each
other and collide
- The most destructive is when a continental plate
collides with a oceanic plate, the oceanic plate
sinks bellow the continental. (subduction Zone)
- Constructive
- Where the plates
move apart or diverge
- A volcano is formed in the gap
- COnservative Boundaries
- Plates moving
across each other
- The plates are moving at different
speeds in different directions