Plate Tectonics Web Quest

Go to:

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html

Answer the following questions:

1.  What is the Earth’s outermost layer? 

2.  How many large plates are there and what are there names? 

3.  How fast do plates move?

Click on Convergent Boundaries

4.  Draw a diagram of a convergent boundary:

5.  Explain what happens at convergent boundaries.

6.  Explain why it might be dangerous to live near a convergent boundary.

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7.  Draw a diagram of a divergent boundary:

8.  Explain what happens at divergent boundaries.

9.  What are some of the physical features associated with a divergent boundary?

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10.  Draw a diagram of a transform boundary:

11.  Explain what happens at a transform boundary.

12.  What are some of the effects of the action along transform boundaries?