Name: Gwyneth Queen N.

Catane Grade 10 – Newton Date: June 11, 2019

Subject: Earth – Science Teacher: Ms. Gersemith Resane

PLATE TECTONIC
1. What are the parts of the Crust?
Earth’s Lithosphere:
 Consist of layers, the crust and the upper part mantle.
 The crust is made of a variety of solid rocks like sedimentary,
metamorphic, and igneous. It has an average density of 2.8 g/𝑐𝑚3 and its
thickness ranges from 5 to 50 km.
Two Kinds of Crust:
 The thicker but less dense is the continental crust.
 The oceanic crust which is relatively thinner but denser than continental crust.
According to the plate tectonic model, the entire lithosphere of the Earth is
broken into numerous segments called plates.
2. What is PLATE TECTONIC?
- There are seven relatively large plates and number of smaller ones, including
the Philippine plate. The plates move very slowly but constantly, and this movement
is called tectonics; thus the theory of moving lithospheric plates is called plate
tectonics.
- Plate Tectonic is a theory dealing with the dynamics of Earth’s outer shell –
lithosphere, that revolutionized Earth sciences by providing a uniform context for
understanding mountain-building processes, volcanoes, and earthquakes as well as
the evolution of Earth’s surface and reconstructing its past continents and ocean.

3. Who proposed the Plate Tectonic theory?

- Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist is often credited as the first to develop
a theory of plate tectonics, in the form of continental drift.
- Wegener postulated that throughout most of geologic time there was only one
continent- Pangea, and the breakup earth‘s continental and started to move
away from one another.
4. Additional Topics
- Seismic Waves: Primary (P-waves), Secondary (S-wave), and Long Surface waves
(L-waves).
- Travelling of the Waves: These waves have different velocities; thus, do not arrive
at a seismic recording station at the same time. The difference in arrival time will
tell us the distance of the earthquake’s focus from seismic recording station.
- Recordings: From the three recording, the epicenter can be determine by
triangulation method. It uses the distance information.
- Epicenter: The three circles will intersect at one point that locates the epicenter
or where the earthquakes started.
SUMMARY

 Oceanic Crust: The oceanic crust which is relatively thinner but denser than
continental crust.
 Continental Crust: The thicker but less dense is the continental crust.
 Plate Tectonic: The plates move very slowly but constantly, and this movement
is called tectonics; thus the theory of moving lithospheric plates is called plate
tectonics.
 Alfred Wegener: A German meteorologist is often credited as the first to develop
a theory of plate tectonics, in the form of continental drift.

Why plates do moves: Because of the convection current below the

lithosphere—which is the Asthenosphere.