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Lesson 2 Types of Plate Boundaries

The document discusses the three main types of plate boundaries: convergent boundaries where plates move towards each other, divergent boundaries where plates move apart, and transform boundaries where plates slide past each other. Pictures and diagrams are provided to illustrate each type of boundary. Students are tasked with describing the pictures, completing a table about plate boundary types, and identifying plate boundary locations on a world map.

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Lesson 2 Types of Plate Boundaries

The document discusses the three main types of plate boundaries: convergent boundaries where plates move towards each other, divergent boundaries where plates move apart, and transform boundaries where plates slide past each other. Pictures and diagrams are provided to illustrate each type of boundary. Students are tasked with describing the pictures, completing a table about plate boundary types, and identifying plate boundary locations on a world map.

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TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARIES

LESSON 2
• The characteristics and locations of active
volcanoes, mountain ranges, and earthquake zones
(epicenter) were also discussed using a map.
Study the pictures showing the fault line in the plate boundaries

Describe each figure. How does each figure differ? How are the
figures similar ? What did you notice with the spaces in between the
two plates ?

Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
• In the pictures, you can say that, plates can move apart
at a boundary. Earthquakes occur along the fractures that
appear as the plates move apart.
• The three types of plate boundaries are convergent,
divergent and transform.
• Convergent boundary a boundary in which two plates move
toward each other, causing one of the slabs of the lithosphere
to subduct beneath an overriding plate.
• Divergent boundary is a region where the crustal plates are
moving apart.
• Transform fault boundary is a boundary produced when two
plates slide past each other.
• Below is a picture showing the fault lines in the
Philippines.
• During earthquake, it is presumed that plates along the fault
line moved and the occurrence of such earthquake can also
affect far from the edges of tectonic plates, along faults.
• Faults are cracks in the lithosphere caused by the
stresses created as sections of a plate (or two plates)
which are moving in different directions.
Activity 1

• Study pictures A to D. Describe each of them. Reread


again the discussions above to help you create an answer.
Write your answer in your notebook.
Picture A
Picture B
Picture C
Picture D
Activity 2
• Complete the table by copying it in your notebook.
How does it look like? Describe each type of
Type of plate boundaries plate boundaries in 3
R (draw)
words
Convergent
a. continental-continental

b. oceanic-oceanic

c. oceanic-continental

Divergent

Transform
Activity 2
• Study the world map and answer the following questions
in your notebook.
• Location of Plate Boundaries
• Study the world map below and answer the questions;
• What type of plate boundaries exist in the following plate?
• a. Eurasian and Philippine plates
• b. Antarctic and South American plates
• c. Antarctic and Australian Plates
• d. South American and African plates
• e. North American and Eurasian plates
• f. South American and Antarctic plates
Activity 2
• If you are given the chance to become a cartographer (a
person who makes maps) and you are asked to make a
map, what legend will you use in order to inform the
people about the location of different types of plate
boundaries? Illustrate your answer in your notebook. Show it
to the class.

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