Cambridge AS Level Geography - 3.1 Plate tectonics

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It fully covers - 3.1 Plate tectonics

3.1.1 Tectonic plates
• Continental plates and oceanic plates: density, age, thickness and composition.
• Relative directions and rates of plate movement.

3.1.2 Tectonic movement
• Continental drift theory and the ‘jigsaw’ fit of continents.
• Geological and fossil records.
• Evidence for sea floor spreading: Earth’s magnetic field recorded in rocks (palaeomagnetism), the age of
sea floor rocks.
• Convection currents, slab pull, ridge push.

3.1.3 Global distribution of types of plate boundaries
• Divergent/constructive.
• Convergent/destructive.
• Convergent/collision.
• Conservative/transform.