SLIP, SLIDE AND

COLLIDE

How Do Tectonic Plates Move?

 3 TYPES OF PLATE
BOUNDARIES
(1) Divergent (constructive)

Convergent (destructive)

Transform (conservative)
SLIP  DIVERGENT PLATE
BOUNDARY
(CONSTRUCTIVE)
 DIVERGENT PLATES
ANIMATION
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 DIVERGENT = CONSTRUCTIVE
(2)Divergent plates separate and new crust is formed to fill in
the gap left by the two divergent plates.
 WHERE ARE
DIVERGENT PLATE
BOUNDARIES?
(3)Mid Atlantic Ridge- runs along the
Atlantic Ocean between the
Americas and Africa/Europe.

(They are getting farther apart

every year!)
(4) Draw a constructive
Divergent Plate Boundary.
Mini Milky Way
Divergent Plate
Of
Science!!
SLIDE  TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY
(CONSERVATIVE)
 TRANSFORM PLATES
ANIMATION
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 TRANSFORM=
(5)CONSERVATIVE
Transform Plates
move past one
another, sliding.
They do not destroy
or create land.
 WHERE ARE
TRANSFORM PLATE
BOUNDARIES?
(6) San Andres Fault in
California.
(7) When the plates
move past one
another they create
earthquakes.
(8)Draw a conservative
Transform Plate Boundary.
 Graham Cracker
Transform Plate Boundary
of
Science!!
COLLIDE CONVERGENT PLATE
BOUNDARY
(DESTRUCTIVE)
CONVERGENT PLATES
ANIMATION
 CONVERGENT =
DESTRUCTIVE
(9) Subduction- the process by which two plates collide
and one plate is drawn underneath the other.

The Older Plate

normally goes
underneath the
younger plate
because it is
heavier.
 CONVERGENT PLATES
AND SUBDUCTION
(10) Convergent Plates are destroyed when one goes
underneath the other.
ONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY
Convergent can either
be (11)
• continental-oceanic,
• oceanic-oceanic
• continental-
continental
 WHERE ARE CONTINENTAL –
CONTINENTAL PLATE
BOUNDARIES?

The Himalayas in India. The two plates collided and pushed

one plate up to create the mountains.
WHERE ARE OCEANIC- OCEANIC
PLATE BOUNDARIES?
Mariana Trench
• off the coast of Japan and the
Philippines.
Islands
• Underwater volcanoes form new
land masses
 WHERE ARE OCEANIC-
CONTINENTAL PLATE
BOUNDARIES?

Volcanoes- found all along the “Ring of Fire”

where active volcanoes are found because
of subducting plates melting and becoming
magma for volcanoes.
(12) Draw a destructive
Convergent Plate
Boundary.
Oreo Cookie Subduction
Convergent Plate
Boundary
 PLATES IN THE FUTURE
In 50 Million years, scientist believe that the
world will look like this!

California

Russia
 IF TIME-PLATE BOUNDARY
GAME
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