https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd Padlet 4 en-us 2018-03-29 18:08:43 UTC 2023-03-24 03:23:34 UTC hello@padlet.com 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359481 Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle, the rocky inner layer above the core.]]> 2018-03-29 18:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359481 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359560 the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.]]> 2018-03-29 18:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359560 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359657 There are three types of plate boundaries: spreading zones, transform faults, andsubduction zones. Earthquakes Kaye M. Shedlock. subduction zones are found where one plate overrides, or subducts, another, pushing it downward into the mantle where it melts.]]> 2018-03-29 18:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359657 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359723 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 18:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359723 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359773 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 18:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247359773 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360071 convergent plate boundary in Science. convergent plate boundary. (kən-vûr'jənt) A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.]]> 2018-03-29 18:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360071 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360129 divergent plate boundary in Science. divergent plate boundary. (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 18:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360129 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360189 A transform boundary (or conservative boundary) is where two of the tectonic plates slide alongside each other. ]]> 2018-03-29 18:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360189 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360240 In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.]]> 2018-03-29 18:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360240 304007 https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360309 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 18:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/304007/sxua8w6t06zd/wish/247360309