Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Plates Plates and more plates

Tomorrow we will start learning about tectonic plates. Please post a question or research and post an interesting fact about plate tectonic theory.  


72 comments:

  1. How many tectonic plates are there?

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  2. Why are the plate's sizes so diverse?

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  3. Why and how do they move so slow and how big are they

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  4. will earth quakes ever stop?

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  5. How common do two plate tectonics meet???

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  6. how can plate tectonic plates be formed or made in a certain order or no or yes

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  7. How many tectonic plates are there in the world?

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  8. How big are the tectonic plates.

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  9. How many plates are in the world?

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  10. Why are they called plates.

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  11. How big are they?

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  12. what are plate tectonics made up of and i know they cause earthquakes

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  13. How thick are the tectonic plates? What are they made up of?

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  14. do the plates ever move so far the move to a different place like state town city?

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  15. Are tectonic plates the only the only thing that make earthquakes?

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  16. How were tectonic plates formed? And did you know that Scientists are now able to track the movement of tectonic plates using GPS.

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  17. How do they move?

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  18. How large/thick are the Earth's tectonic plates?

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  19. Why do the tectonic plates move. The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean.

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  20. How many are there in the world

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  21. what do they create.

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  22. How many plates are there?

    Seven.

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  23. What's the true size of tectonic plate?

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  24. why did they move and how?

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  25. Tectonic plants are the cause of earthquakes and valcanos.

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  26. why do the tectonic plates move?

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  27. will there ever be a huge earth quake that involves the hole world

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  28. What is the size of tectonic plates, and how do they move?

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  29. How many tectonic plates are in the world?

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  30. how many tectonic are there.

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  31. how many Plates are there????????

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  32. Pangaea was a super continent that broke apart over 200 million years ago to form smaller continents that formed the tectonic plates.

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  33. How many tectonic plates are there?

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  34. how are tectonic plates move?

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  35. How many plates are there?

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  36. The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. It is formed by a convergent boundary between the Pacific Plate and the Mariana Plate.

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  37. My question about plate tectonic is how many plate tectonic are in the world.

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  38. Why do plate tectonics move? There are 6 plates.

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  39. Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates. (6) But why are there only six?

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  40. Many scientists believe plate movement is driven by slow-churning currents deep in the mantle beneath.

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  41. When the plates hit each other why do they make earthquakes?

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  42. What are the plates made out of?

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  43. What definition would sum up plate tectonics?

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  44. Why are there only six plates? Why can't there be more plates or less plates? If there were more or less plates would it mess anything up?

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  45. Does their size affect how fast or slow they move.

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  46. How many tectonic plates are there?

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  47. how do tectonic plates move

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  48. Can the plates break

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  49. how big and how meny plates are there.

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  50. How many plates are there?

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  51. what are tectonic plates made out of and why do they exist???????

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  52. why does the tectonic plates move so slow?

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  53. how many different plates are there?

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  54. When the tectonic plates brake to cause an earthquake would that make more tectonic plates? And if so then how could we really know the amount of plates in the world?

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  55. how where tectonic plates created/ disscoverd

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  56. why do plate move so slow?

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  57. How many tectonic plates are there?

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  58. How many plates are there in the world?

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  59. Can 4 Plate work together to make a big earthquake?

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  60. How were tectonic plates discovered and why they are on the earth?

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  61. Why are their so many plate tectonics.

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  62. How many plates are there?

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  63. Who first came up with the plate tectonics theory?

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  64. how many tectonic plates are their today , and why do they move so slow?

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  65. How many tectonic plates are there

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  66. The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each other.

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  67. Where are the plate tectonics located?

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  68. Why do we have plate tectonics????

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  69. tectonic plates are were volcanos form.

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  70. Pangaea was a super continent that was broken up 200 million years ago by the tectonic plates to form smaller continents.

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  71. When the plates hit each other why do they make earthquakes?

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