https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj Made with big dreams en-us 2018-03-29 16:05:31 UTC 2018-03-29 16:12:23 UTC hello@padlet.com 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247310154 a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying mantle.]]> 2018-03-29 16:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247310154 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247310500 the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.]]> 2018-03-29 16:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247310500 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247310740 the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.]]> 2018-03-29 16:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247310740 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247310949 he Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.he Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.]]> 2018-03-29 16:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247310949 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247311192 The Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. ]]> 2018-03-29 16:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247311192 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247311451 The Cascade Mountain Range is a line of volcanoes above the melting oceanic plate. The Andes Mountain Range of western South America is another example of a convergent boundary between an oceanic and continental plate. Here the Nazca Plate is subducting beneath the South American plate]]> 2018-03-29 16:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247311451 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247311625 In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary (also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.]]> 2018-03-29 16:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247311625 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247311809 Transform boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other. At transform boundaries lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed. Many transform boundaries are found on the sea floor, where they connect segments of diverging mid-ocean ridges. California's San Andreas fault is a transform boundary]]> 2018-03-29 16:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247311809 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247312100 A fault is a fracture along which the blocks of crust on either side have moved relative to one another parallel to the fracture. Strike-slip, normal, and reverse faults. A reverse fault with a small dip angle is called a thrust fault.]]> 2018-03-29 16:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247312100 303968 https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247312268 the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.]]> 2018-03-29 16:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/303968/8jeai2rc8mhj/wish/247312268