Joint Earth Science Education Initiative: plate riding

This material can act as review material to test students’ understanding of plate tectonicsand the rock cycle. It highlights the links between geological processes and plate tectonic processes.

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Plate riding

Level

14-16 years

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Wales
- GCSE
  - WJEC Chemistry
    - Unit 1: CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES, REACTIONS and ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
      - 1.4 THE EVER-CHANGING EARTH
        (b) the theory of plate tectonics and how it developed from Alfred Wegener's earlier theory of continental drift
        (c) the processes occurring at conservative, destructive and constructive plate boundaries where plates slide past one another, move towards one another and move apart respectively
  - WJEC Combined science
    - Unit 2: Chemistry 1
      - 2.4 THE EVER-CHANGING EARTH
        (b) the theory of plate tectonics and how it developed from Alfred Wegener's earlier theory of continental drift
        (c) the processes occurring at conservative, destructive and constructive plate boundaries where plates slide past one another, move towards one another and move apart respectively

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