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Earth's Dynamic Systems

The document discusses the three types of tectonic plate boundaries: convergent, divergent, and transform, detailing their roles in geological phenomena such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain formation. It also explains the rock cycle and the process of soil formation, highlighting the importance of moisture and organic life in creating soil, as well as the impact of erosion exemplified by the Dust Bowl. Overall, it provides an overview of tectonic activity and soil conservation.

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Earth's Dynamic Systems

The document discusses the three types of tectonic plate boundaries: convergent, divergent, and transform, detailing their roles in geological phenomena such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain formation. It also explains the rock cycle and the process of soil formation, highlighting the importance of moisture and organic life in creating soil, as well as the impact of erosion exemplified by the Dust Bowl. Overall, it provides an overview of tectonic activity and soil conservation.

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Plate Tectonics

Convergent Boundaries

Convergent Boundaries are when tectonic plates


collide. These are responsible for volcanoes,
mountains, and islands. They also create a process
called subduction, subduction is when in a convergent
boundary, one plate is thicker but less dense, but the
other plate is thinner and more dense and when these
two plates collide the denser one sinks below the less
dense one the less dense one melts into magma which
rises causing an eruption.
Divergent Boundaries

Divergent boundaries are where tectonic plates move


away from each other. Under the ocean there are
divergent boundaries, when these plates spread apart
magma rises causing volcanoes, but the magma cools
to make the volcano bigger and over millions of years
this can form islands.
Transform Boundaries

Transform plate boundaries are where plates slide/rub


against each other. These are the boundaries that
create earthquakes. These are also the reason for
rivers that have moved/transported somewhere else.
These can make faults, places where earthquakes
occur, like the San Andreas Fault in California.
The Rock Cycle
Sediments
Ocean Sediments
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Soil Formation and
Conservation
Soil Formation and Conservation

Soil forms when rocks and minerals get broken down and those broken down rocks get
turned into dirt. Then once the dirt has some moisture and organic life in it it is called soil.
Soil had layers called horizons. Soil (like sediments) can also be transported via erosion. But
sometimes this can get out of hand. Like in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. The
Dust Storms formed from massive amounts of erosion coming from tons of dry soil.

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