6. 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 ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

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 ...