PLATE TECTONICS by Dulce Jimenez Ramirez https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2018-03-29 15:53:20 UTC 2026-02-02 07:02:28 UTC hello@padlet.com PLATE TECTONICS 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247305580 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 15:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247305580 CONTINENTAL DRIFT 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247306083 the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.]]> 2018-03-29 15:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247306083 SUBDUCTION 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247306423 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 15:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247306423 MID ATLANTIC RIDGE 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247306958 a very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic]]> 2018-03-29 15:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247306958 RING OF FIREis a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247308102 2018-03-29 16:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247308102 CONVERGENT BOUNDARY 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247309314 is a region of active deformation where two or more tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere are ne]]> 2018-03-29 16:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247309314 DIVERGENT BOUNDARY 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247309991  is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.]]> 2018-03-29 16:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247309991 TRANSFORM BOUNDARY 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247310481 are places where plates slide sideways past each other.]]> 2018-03-29 16:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247310481 FAULT 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247310857 an unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work or in a person's character.]]> 2018-03-29 16:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247310857 ASTHENOSPHERE 310012 https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247311355 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 16:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/310012/iiei3km5sa5a/wish/247311355