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Plate Tectonics
The Earth is made up of 3 main layers:
Where do we live?
How do we know what the Earth is made of?
Geophysical surveys:
Acquisition:
Geological surveys:
If you look at a map of the world, you may notice that some of the
could fit together like
pieces of a
. When it was all together as one landmass it was known as
.
Alfred Wegner proposed
.
and
of the crust as a
of
What are tectonic plates made of? Plates are made of rigid
made up of the
and the
. The lithosphere is
of the mantle.
What lies beneath the tectonic plates? Below the lithosphere (which makes up the
) is the
.
Plate Movement
Plates of lithosphere are moved around by the
in the
.
is erupted to
Iceland: An example of
running through its middle
. Iceland has a
plate boundary
collision forms
causes them to
between
causes them to break,
3. What is the correlation between plate tectonics and events like earthquakes and volcanoes?