The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust ... like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into ...

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 ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

It is also where most of the people on Earth live. In this lesson, students use scientific data to learn how the scientific process works. They learn where the Earth's tectonic plates and their ...

The finding demonstrates that plate ... movements before 3 billion years ago," study co-author Timothy Kusky, director of the ...

The modern understanding of the plate ... this tectonic anomaly might be. “It could be either ancient, silica-rich material that has been there since the formation of the mantle about 4 billion years ...

Map of the Word with lines marking boundaries of tectonic plates ... mantle and crust—is split into sections called plates, which move. These movements create mountains, volcanoes and oceans.