Convergent Plate Boundaries

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What occurs at convergent plate boundaries?

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Crustal plates come together.

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What type of plate boundary is associated with the world's most dangerous volcanoes?

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Convergent plate boundaries.

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Why does oceanic crust subduct beneath continental crust?

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Because oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust.

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What geological feature is commonly found at convergent plate boundaries?

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Trenches.

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What happens to crust at a convergent plate boundary?

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It is destroyed.

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What are the two main types of convergent plate boundaries?

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Oceanic-continental and oceanic-oceanic.

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What is subduction?

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The process by which one tectonic plate moves under another and is forced into the mantle.

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What type of volcanic activity is typically found at convergent plate boundaries?

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Explosive volcanic eruptions.

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What is the role of water in the subduction process?

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Water lowers the melting point of the mantle, leading to magma formation.

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What is a common result of the collision of two continental plates?

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Mountain building.