Earth’s Plate Tectonics

California Content Standard 3a: Students know features of the ocean floor (magnetic patterns, age, and sea-floor topography) provide evidence of plate tectonics.

Today you will study the evidence for Plate Tectonics.

Go to this website

Read the page and answer these questions in an appleworks document:

1. What is Plate Tectonics?

2. What does it explain?

3. How were all the continents arranged 225 million years ago?

4. What moves the plates around?

5. What are the four types of boundaries that happen when Plate Tectonic activities take place?

6. What happens at divergent boundaries?

7. What happens at convergent boundaries?

8. What happens at collisional boundaries?

9. What happens at transform boundaries?

Name the document: last first name and put it in the Plate Tectonics folder on the server.