Plate Boundaries

Plate Boundaries

• is where plates meet and these plate boundaries are of 3 types convergent, divergent, conservative
• They have tectonic activities and are unstable.
• Found on the edge of the lithospheric plates

What do I notice? :-

• The northern american plate is the biggest
• The juan de fuca pleate is the smallest
• They don’t move in the same direction
• Lots of subducting plates - ocean and continental plates collide
• Different plates are in different continents and are named after them
• Some plates consist of trenches
• Some plates have ridges

Plate boundary map:-

Key - red lines are where the plates meet.

Key words:-

lithosphere - The solid outer part of the earth.

convergent - come together(destructive)

divergent - opposite of convergent(constructive)

conservative - transform

Locating Boundaries...


Name a place on earth where 2 plates are converging...
- Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world.


Name a place where 2 plates are diverging...
- The Mid-Atlantic ridge and on land Lake Baikal in Siberia.


Name a place where 2 plates are sliding against each other...
- The San Andreas fault in North America.


Websites - http://www.universetoday.com/39760/plate-boundaries/
              http://www.coolgeography.co.uk/GCSE/AQA/Restless%20Earth/Tectonics/Plate%20margins.htm