BY MATT MANKA

PLATE TECTONICS

• Is the theory that the earths outer shell is divided into many plates that glide over the mantle.
• Some landforms formed by tectonic plates are shield volcanoes, fold mountains,

CONVECTION CURRENT

SLAB PULL

• Slab pull is the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for subduction.

RIDGE PUSH

• Gravity causes the ridge to push on the lithosphere which is farther from the ridge

DIVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY

• In the ocean divergent plate boundaries for mors witch are mid ocean ridges

CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY

• Convergent plate boundary scan also be known as destruction plate boundary do to subduction

SUBDUCTION ZONE

• Subduction is the process that takes place in convergent plate boundary which one plate moves under the other one
• Or a collision of two tectonic plates

DEEP OCEAN TRENCH

• Ocean crust is formed at an ocean ridge while the lithosphere is takin back by the process of subduction
• Some examples are in deep ocean trenches you usually find them in the west of the subduction zones

TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY

• These faults never create or destroy the lithosphere these plates are also horizontal

WHEN PLATES MOVE ALONG TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES IT CAUSES

• It causes earthquakes

AN EXAMPLE OF TRANSFORM BOUNDARY IS

• One example of a transform boundary is the San Andreas fault