https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co Made with a dash of wit AND MY HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! en-us 2018-03-29 17:23:12 UTC 2025-10-01 03:54:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247340799 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 17:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247340799 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247341079 the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.]]> 2018-03-29 17:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247341079 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247341741 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 17:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247341741 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247341926 a north-south suboceanic ridge in the Atlantic Ocean from Iceland to Antarctica on whose crest are several groups of islands; shown by plate tectonics to be the axis along which North America has split away from Eurasia, and along which South America has split away from Africa. ]]> 2018-03-29 17:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247341926 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247342613 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. In a 40,000 km (25,000 mi) horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and plate movements.

]]> 2018-03-29 17:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247342613 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247343056 convergent plate boundary. (kən-vûr'jənt) A tectonicboundary where two plates are moving toward each other. If the two plates are of equal density, they usually push up against each other, forming a mountain chain. If they are of unequal density, one plate usually sinks beneath the other in a subduction zone.]]> 2018-03-29 17:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247343056 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247343353 divergent plate boundary in Science. divergent plateboundary. (dĭ-vûr'jənt) A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface between the two plates.]]> 2018-03-29 17:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247343353 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247344109 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 17:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247344109 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247344456
(of a rock formation) be broken by a fault or faults]]> 2018-03-29 17:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247344456 3100241 https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247344754 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 17:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/3100241/ir6o88c6f1co/wish/247344754