Plates make up the crust of the EarthCan you see any similarities between the plate boundaries shown here andThe ones you found with your earthquake and volcano data?

Tectonic Plates Come In Two FlavorsOceanic Plates are thinner and denserThey are represented by your fruit roll up pieces

Continental plates are thicker and less denseThey are represented by your graham crackers

Tectonic Plates Can Interact in Three Basic WaysConvergent Boundaries converge or come together

Divergent Boundaries diverge or move apart

Transform Boundaries slide past each other

We will model these interactions with our food

Divergent Boundaries

The Mid Atlantic Ridge

Oceanic Convergent Boundaries

The Marianas Trench

Ocean To Continental Convergent Boundary – Subduction Zone

The Pacific Ring of Fire

Mt. SpurrAlaska

Continental Convergent Boundary

Himalaya Mountains

Transform Boundary

San Andreas Fault