Ask them to use color pencils to mark (on their individual plate boundary map) all plate boundaries in the world which fit that description. They should use different colored pencils for each of ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives ... A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ridge the longest mountain range in the world.

Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...

Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

Four types of plate tectonic activity are demonstrated in this feature. Keep an eye on the map to see where in the world the activity takes place. Also known as spreading boundary, a divergent ...

In regions of convergence, one plate can sink under another in a subduction zone, or two colliding plates can form a mountain belt. At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and ...

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors ... they are due to the same forces that cause earthquakes along plate boundaries. Faults are defined by ...

But as far as we know, no other bodies in the solar system exhibit plate tectonics today. Why is our world different? "We don't know for sure," Bradford Foley, a geodynamicist at Penn State ...