Tectonic Plate

Plates that can shift Something hot causes a split between a plate, moving mantle down into the earth

History

• Abraham Ortelius’s discovery of an atlas
• Niagara Gorge

Plates

• North American Plate
• Antarctic Plate
• Juan de Fuca Plate
• Sundra Plate

Plate Boundaries

• Convergent Plates
• Divergent Plates
• Transform Plates