Join us in exploring the most fundamental concept. Less than 100 years ago, most people thought that the continents were fixed and unmovable. Scientists now know that the continental crust is breaking apart, grinding together, and colliding creating earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges. Learn more about the cause of these events. Produced by Prince William Network.

Mount Everest the tallest mountain in the World. Plate Tectonics and the Formation of Earth Forms. You will be doing a one page report on the formation of a land form somewhere on earth. It could be a mountain range, an ocean or a valley. You will describe the geologic processes that occurred to form this structure. 1 Look at the possible topics and pick one or make one up. 3 Collect notes on the topic on this page.

Plate tectonics is the theroy that the outer rigid layer of earth is is divided into 30 peices that float over molten rock. It was founded in 1960 by Alfred Wagner. He thout of this because the cotinents all seem to fit together like jigsaw peices. Of current volcanic activity on Earth. Plate tectonic motion, which may.

Sunday, October 29, 2017. Yes it does, it just belongs to the Earth expansion part of the story. Which is for later, once Plate Tectonics is well served.