https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a This exhibition will take you through the history of the Earth’s continental shifts, the plate boundaries involved in those shifts, the mountain ranges that formed on those continents, and predictions about how the continents will change in the future. en-us 2022-05-23 16:10:09 UTC 2025-10-22 21:32:25 UTC hello@padlet.com m403121 https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2197934457 2022-05-24 15:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2197934457 b405191 https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2199583679 Tectonic Plate are large pieces on top of the Earth that shift around. There are 7 major Tectonic Plates, but how do we know they exist? The idea of plate tectonics came from the idea of Continental Drift. Continental Drift believes that the Earth's continents are always moving. The Earth started with the supercontinent, Pangea, and it broke apart. This is how we got our existing continents.]]> 2022-05-25 15:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2199583679 m403121 https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2199598088 Heat from the radioactive processes within our planets interior makes the tectonic plates to move, often times toward and sometimes away from each other. ]]> 2022-05-25 15:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2199598088 l40334_2 https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2199601558 Convergent Boundaries: Convergent boundaries are found between oceanic-oceanic lithosphere, oceanic-continental lithosphere, and continental-continental lithosphere. The geologic features related to convergent boundaries vary depending on crust types.

Divergent Boundaries: Divergent boundaries are spreading boundaries, where new oceanic crust is created to fill in the space as the plates move apart. Most divergent boundaries are located along mid-ocean oceanic ridges (although some are on land).

Transform Boundaries: 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.]]> 2022-05-25 15:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2199601558 c405131 https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2199604026 Transform Boundaries: where two tectonic plates slide horizontally. Ex: San Andreas Fault
Divergent Boundaries: where two tectonic plates move away from each other. Ex: Jordan Rift Valley, Mid Atlantic Ridge
Convergent Boundaries: where two tectonic plates collide. Ex: The Himalayas(above)]]> 2022-05-25 15:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2199604026 e395971 https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2200059513 Divergent Plate Boundaries (where two plates divide): When the magma underneath pushes the crust apart (the magma flow is kind of like two conveyor belts moving together, tearing the middle apart) and makes new crust.  

Convergent Plate Boundaries (where two plates collide): when the plates collide, subduction can happen. This is when one of the colliding plates goes under the other plate, and makes a bump in the earth's crust. If neither of the plates go under, then they rise and make mountains.     

Transform Plate Boundaries (where two plates slide against each other): When plates slide against each other horizontally, and create a "fault," where the plates get stuck against each other. When the plates keep pulling and pulling, the pressure builds up, and when they finally pass each other, earthquakes happen. That is why when earthquakes happen, the stronger areas are on the edges of the plates, where the faults happen. ]]> 2022-05-26 00:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2200059513 b405191 https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2202573826 Tectonic Plates - Large moving pieces of the Earth's crust
Pangea- Supercontinent from billions of years ago that split up into the continents we have today
Continental Drift- theory that the continents are moving away from each other
Plate Boundaries- 3 Types of ways tectonic plates move
Transform Boundaries: where two tectonic plates slide horizontally.
Divergent Boundaries: where two tectonic plates move away from each other.
Convergent Boundaries: where two tectonic plates collide.
Seafloor Spreading- Happens at the bottom of the ocean when the ocean floor is spreading
Lithosphere- Outermost shell of the Earth made up of the Earth's crust
Asthenosphere- Below the Lithosphere which contains liquid magma]]> 2022-05-27 21:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2202573826 c405131 https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2202580309 2022-05-27 21:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/l40334_2/o7uubcg18cmaf93a/wish/2202580309