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 of ...

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust ... moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very slowly.

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 ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives ... A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ridge the longest mountain range in the world.