Tectonic Landscapes

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  • Created by: Poppy
  • Created on: 06-01-12 14:12

Earths Tectonic Plates are divided into seven large and 12 smaller plates.

The Earth's crust is between 10 and 100km thick.

There are two types of crust:

Oceanic Crust: between 5 and 10km thick, the crust is continually being renewed and destroyed.

Continental Crust: between 25 and 100km thick, it does not sink and it is not destroyed.

Three different plate movements:

Plates move towards each other... CONVERGENT OR DESTRUCTIVE (boundaries)

Plates move apart... DIVERGENT OR CONSRUCTIVE (boundaries)

Plates slide past each other... CONSERVATIVE OR TRANSFORM (boundaries)

Plates meet at plate…

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John F.

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Very good! You can still add how the Mercalli scale is categoric and the Richter scale is linear and more importantly, the actual scales - Richter scale ranges from 1-10, Mercalli scale ranges from 1-12. :)

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