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Earth Science SHS 14.4 Formation of Landforms

1. The document explains how plate tectonics leads to the formation of different landforms at plate boundaries. Divergent boundaries form when plates move apart, creating oceanic ridges and rift valleys. Convergent boundaries form when plates collide, creating trenches, volcanic arcs, and mountain ranges. Transform boundaries form when plates slide past each other horizontally along transform faults.

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Earth Science SHS 14.4 Formation of Landforms

1. The document explains how plate tectonics leads to the formation of different landforms at plate boundaries. Divergent boundaries form when plates move apart, creating oceanic ridges and rift valleys. Convergent boundaries form when plates collide, creating trenches, volcanic arcs, and mountain ranges. Transform boundaries form when plates slide past each other horizontally along transform faults.

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Lesson 14.

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Formation of Landforms
Objective explain how the
movement of plate leads
At the end to the formation of
of the 1 trenches, volcanoes, rift
lesson, you valleys, and mountain
should be ranges.
able to:
Plates are in constant motion relative to each
other, and most major tectonic activities can
be found in plate boundaries.
Learn about it!

Divergent Boundaries
• Divergent boundaries
are formed when two
plates move away from
each other resulting in
the rising of the molten
material.
Divergent boundary
Learn about it!

Divergent Boundaries
• Divergent boundaries
may form continental
rifts.

Birth of an ocean floor


Learn about it!

Convergent Boundaries
• Convergent boundaries are
formed when two plates
move toward each other.

• There are three types of


these boundaries

An example of a convergent
boundary is seen in the Juan de
Fuca plate.
Learn about it!

Convergent Boundaries
• In oceanic-continental
convergence, the
continental crust
remains buoyant while
the oceanic crust starts
to sink into the mantle.

Oceanic-continental convergence
Learn about it!

Convergent Boundaries
• Oceanic-oceanic
convergence happens
when two oceanic crusts
converge and the
denser oceanic crust
sinks beneath the other
oceanic crust.

Oceanic-oceanic convergence
Learn about it!

Convergent Boundaries
• Continental-continental
convergence happens
when a continental crust
moves toward another
landmass.

Continental-continental convergence
Learn about it!

Transform Plate Boundaries


• Transform plate
boundaries (also
transform fault
boundaries) happen
when two plates simply
slide horizontally past
each other.

Transform plate boundary


Key Points

Divergent boundary is formed when two plates


1 move apart.

Convergent boundary is formed when two plates


2 move toward each other.

Transform plate boundary happens when two


3 plates simply slide horizontally past each other.
Check Your Understanding

Write true if the statement is true, and false


otherwise.
1.A new seafloor is created when molten material from the lowermost
crust rises and fills up the gap formed due to divergence of plate
2.Younger oceanic crust is found along the oceanic ridge.
3.The collision between oceanic and continental crust forms
continental volcanic arc
4.San Andreas fault is formed due to two plates passing slide each
other.
5.Slab pull could most likely be observed at transform boundary.
Challenge Yourself

How do rift valleys


form?
Bibliography

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York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Coenraads, Robert R. 2005. Rocks & Fossils: A Visual Guide. Australia: Weldon Owen Inc. Hamblin, W.
Kenneth and Eric H. Christiansen. 2003. Earth’s Dynamic Systems, 10th Edition.New Jersey:
Pearson Prentice Hall

Monroe, James S. and Reed Wicander.2012. The Changing Earth: Exploring Geology and Evolution, 6th
Edition, International Edition. United States: Brooks Cole Publishing

Stephen J. Reynolds, et al. 2013. Exploring Geology, 3rd Edition. United States: McGraw-Hill Companies,
Inc.

Tarbuck, Edward J. and Frederick J. Lutgens. 2015. Earth Science. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.

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