Transform Plate

Boundaries

Shirleyka Hector

Class-J

Tectonic Plates

• Tectonic plates are big chunk of solid rocks in earth’s

crust.

Two Main types of tectonic

plates• The two main types of tectonic

plates are oceanic plates and

continental plates.

• Continental Plates

The plates that make the continents.

They are made out of rocks,

igneous, sedimentary, and

metamorphic rocks.

• Oceanic Plates

The plates that are under the ocean

floor.

Transform plate boundary

Motion

• Transform plate boundary move pass one another

horizontally.

Force behind plates

• Plates move because of the slow motion of the hot

mantle(magma) that is located under the lithosphere.

transform boundaries’

features• At a transform plate boundary, tectonic plates pass

each other. When the plates rub against each other,

they cause huge stress that causes earthquakes and

faults.

Transform plate

boundariesContinental-continental Oceanic-continental Oceanic- oceanic

Transform fault Fault Spreading of ocean

ridge

Vocabulary

French

• Les plaques tectoniques

• Transformer limite de

plaque

• plaque continentale

• plaque océanique

• lithosphère

Russian

• Тектонические плиты

• Преобразование границы

пластины

• континентальной плиты

• океанической плиты

• литосфера

English: Tectonic plates, Transform plate boundary, Continental Plate, Oceanic

Plate,

Lithosphere.

Summary

Tectonic plates are big pieces of moving rock that make

up earth’s crust. The two main types of tectonic plates are

oceanic plates and continental plates. The former makes the

continents. They are made out of rocks, igneous, sedimentary,

and metamorphic rocks. The latter makes the ocean floor. At a

transform plate boundary, plates move pass one another

horizontally. Plates move because of the slow motion of the hot

mantle(magma) that is located under the lithosphere known as

convection currents. Lastly, when the plates rub against each

other at a transform plate boundary, they cause huge stress

that causes earthquakes/tsunamis and faults.

Q & A

Questions???

• What are the two main

types of plate?

• What are the features

created at a transform

boundary?

• How do tectonic plates

move?

Answers!!!

• Oceanic and continental

plates.

• Earthquakes, Tsunamis,

Faults.

• They move pass one

another

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