Tectonics
Tectonic plates keep moving, and pulling apart, pushing together, or sliding past creates predictable patterns of ridges, mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
Earth ScienceAges 10-13~10 min🎙️ Voice tutor
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What your child will figure out
- Distinguish divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries from motion and evidence.
- Predict the landform or hazard produced by a boundary and its crust types.
- Explain how separation, compression, subduction, and shear cause visible surface evidence.
- Transfer boundary reasoning to generated cross-sections and map-scale clues.
The levels
- Crack the motion
Predict a divergent boundary, enact the plate motion, observe upwelling, and explain new crust.
- Build a ridge
Predict the outcome of ocean spreading and explain why mantle becomes new seafloor.
- Wake the fault
Infer transform motion from aligned shallow quakes and explain stress release.
- Read the planet
Transfer the model to a map-scale mountain belt and explain continental compression.
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