Slide Notes
FUN FACTS:
All of our continents are actually connected to larger "plates" of rock.
The colored sections on the map show these larger plates. You will notice the outline of the continents sitting on top of the various colored plates.
The colored plates reach out into the ocean well beyond the outline of the continents themselves.
Look at the bright green South American plate and the beige African plate...
Both "tectonic plates" stretch into the Atlantic Ocean and down towards the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean...
All of the land and the countries that we think of as Africa, or South America, are the parts of the land that stick up above the surface of the ocean...
But don't forget that the continents are not just floating on top of the water; instead, they are connected to larger rocky "tectonic plates"...
(interesting side fact: those tectonic plates are sort of floating on sort of liquidy, molten rock layers closer to the middle of the earth...it is always bubbling and shifting...)
All of our continents are actually connected to larger "plates" of rock.
The colored sections on the map show these larger plates. You will notice the outline of the continents sitting on top of the various colored plates.
The colored plates reach out into the ocean well beyond the outline of the continents themselves.
Look at the bright green South American plate and the beige African plate...
Both "tectonic plates" stretch into the Atlantic Ocean and down towards the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean...
All of the land and the countries that we think of as Africa, or South America, are the parts of the land that stick up above the surface of the ocean...
But don't forget that the continents are not just floating on top of the water; instead, they are connected to larger rocky "tectonic plates"...
(interesting side fact: those tectonic plates are sort of floating on sort of liquidy, molten rock layers closer to the middle of the earth...it is always bubbling and shifting...)
