Plate Tectonics

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What type of plate boundary is characterized by two continental plates colliding?

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Continent-to-continent convergent boundary.

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What geological features are formed at divergent plate boundaries?

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Rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges.

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What is the San Andreas Fault an example of?

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Transform plate boundary.

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When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, which plate subducts?

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The oceanic plate subducts.

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What type of plate boundary is responsible for the formation of a continental rift valley?

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Divergent plate boundaries.

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Define a convergent plate boundary.

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A boundary where two plates move toward each other, often causing one plate to subduct beneath the other.

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What is a transform plate boundary?

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A boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally.

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What geological activity is commonly associated with convergent boundaries?

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Earthquakes and volcanic activity.

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What is subduction?

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

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What landforms are typically created at oceanic-oceanic convergent boundaries?

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Island arcs and deep ocean trenches.

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