1. Mrs. Z’s Mountain Building notes ONLY! Mountain Building 2. Rock Deformation AKA – Mountain Building • Deformation - the bending, breaking, and tilting of the earth’s…
1. Boundaries, Stresses, and Faults OH MY! How do geologic events change and shape Earth’s surface? 2. Remember… The Lithosphere is made of… The CRUST + The Upper Rigid…
1. Earth’s Landmasses 2. Islands – small landmasses completely surrounded by water Four Major landmasses on Earth - Eurasia and Africa, North and South America, Antarctica…
1. Transform Boundary At a transform plate boundary, plates move pass one another causing earthquakes or tsunamis. This picture shows a transform boundary located in…
Slide 1 The Earth Slide 2 The Theory of Plate Tectonics The theory that Earth’s lithosphere is divided into tectonic plates that drift on the athenosphere. Divided into…