Monday, April 20, 2009

Mid-Ocean Ridges

Mid-ocean plates is a series of mountains and valley's that marks the spot where the crustal plates are moving apart, and also creates new ocean crust.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

RING OF FIRE!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know that the ring of FIRE was located along the coast of New Zealand and the eastern side of Asia??? well its TRUE!!!!! the kewl thing about the ring of fire is that it is made up of volcanoes, mountains , and dormant volcanoes.

The 3 boundaries

 Have you ever wondered how convergent and divergent boundaries work????????
Convergent boundaries push together and form mountains and volcanoes, while divergent boundaries create sea floor spreading. Transform boundaries create earthquakes, because they slide right by each other. 

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Pangea

As you probably know...  Pangea moved apart over time. we can tell because there are the same fossils on different continents, which can explain why there are identical mammals in many places.including Europe, South America, North America, Asia, etc...