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Weathering, Erosion, and Plate Tectonics The creation of Earth’s Face Questions What forces and phenomena create the different features of the earth? What are tectonic plates? What are the three major Types of Plate Boundaries? What are the two external processes that change the earth’s surface? What are the different types of Weathering and Erosion? Forces that change the Earth’s Surface There are two major geological processes that create features on the earth: Faulting and Plate Tectonics Weathering and Erosion They both take a long time to change the earth. Remember, nothing drastic on earth happens at human speeds. Plate Tectonics Huge volumes of heated and molten rock moving around the earth’s interior form massive solid plates that move extremely slowly across the earth’s surface. Tectonic plates: huge rigid plates that are moved with convection cells or currents by floating on magma or molten rock. The Earth’s Major Tectonic Plates The Earth’s Major Tectonic Plates The extremely slow movements of these plates cause them to grind into one another at convergent plate boundaries, move apart at divergent plate boundaries and slide past at transform plate boundaries. GEOLOGIC PROCESSES The San Andreas Fault is an example of a transform fault. Wearing Down and Building Up the Earth’s Surface Weathering is an external process that wears the earth’s surface down. Weathering Three types of weathering: Physical Big Rock becomes Small Rock due to wind, rain, and frost wedging. Frost wedging occurs when water freezes in between the pores of large sedimentary rocks. Chemical When a chemical reaction degrades or decompose rock. More common with rocks containing carbon and oxygen, like limestone. Biological Conversion of Rock and Minerals into smaller particles due to living thing. Lichens, Tree Roots, Earthworms. Erosion Erosion is another major external factor that changes the surface of the earth. Erosion is different from weathering because erosion deposits ma