Plate Tectonics

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1. What evidence do scientists have that large plates of land are moving?

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2. What are some names of the major plates of land?

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3. What are some ways that tectonic plates can interact with each other?

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4. How can land forms provide evidence for scientists to determine plate boundaries?

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5. How does the theory of plate tectonics relate to mountains and volcanoes?

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Helpful and fun Links:

Interactive Earth over Time - Can match the time period

Article on Plate Tectonics - Not too hard to read and really interesting.

Volcanoes and Plates Comparision

Video on types of Plate Boundaries - very straight forward and pretty easy to understand

Video on the evidence for Plate Tectonics

Video on how plate tectonics is related to mountains.

Video on how plates move


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