This week it's all about how wiggly the world really is! Why don't we perceive it? These things move slowly and our lives are fairly brief compared to thousands of years it takes to make a mountain. (And if it happened quickly, chances are good we wouldn't survive the crazy event to tell about it!) But if we lived 900 years like Methusaleh, maybe we'd notice just how movable the mountains and continents are!
As usual, stuff is grouped together to help you organize it in your notes and in your head.
Continental Drift
Tectonics
Convection Current
PLATE BOUNDARIES (the following are all types)
convergent--- with its friends subduction and trench
divergent-- with its friends seafloor spreading and midocean ridges
transform - it has no vocabulary friends
Stress- geologic not human! There are types because scientist LOVE to sort things into groups.
tensional
compressional
shearing
Deformation
Folding
Fracture
Hanging wall/footwall
Orogenesis
Mountain ranges
Plateau
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