Plate Tectonics

By: Diana Hernandez

Convergent Boundary O-O
● When continental and oceanic
plates collide, the thinner and the
more dense oceanic plate is
overridden by disallowing the
thicker and less dense continental
plate.
Convergent Boundary O-C
● When two plates come towards each
other they create a convergent plate
boundary. The plates can meet where
they have oceanic crust or both have
continental crust, or they can meet
where one has oceanic and one has
continental.
Convergent Boundary C-C
● Convergent Plate Boundary -
Oceanic and Continental Plates.
When continental and oceanic
plates collide, the thinner and more
dense oceanic plate is overridden
by the thicker and less dense
continental plate.
Divergent Continental
● Magma then oozes up from the
mantle to fill in the space
between the plates, forming a
raised ridge called a mid-ocean
ridge.
Divergent Ocean
● When continental and oceanic
plates collide, the thinner and more
dense oceanic plate is overridden
by the thicker and less dense
continental plate
Transform
● Transform Plate Boundaries are locations
where two plates slide past one another.
● Most transform faults are found in the
ocean basin and connect offsets in the
mid-ocean ridges.
Sedimentary
● Sedimentary rock can be created in
three different ways:
1. By the deposition of weathered
remains of other rocks.
2. By gathering and combining
sediments together.
3. By precipitation from solutions
Metamorphic
● It is formed by pre-existing rock.
● The original rock is exposed to
high heat and pressure, which
causes physical and chemical
changes to the rock.
● Examples of Metamorphic rock:
marble, slate.
Igneous
● They are created at the Earth’s
surface as a part of melting rocks in
the mantle and the crust.
● They are formed when magma is
cooled down on the Earth’s surface.