Plate Tectonics

Divergent Plate boundary

• plate boundary where new crust is created as two or more plates pull away from each other.

• Boundary where one denser plate goes beneath the other

• Form when two continental plates collide

• Boundary that occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other.

Subduction

• plate boundary where new crust is created as two or more plates pull away from each other.

• process where one denser plate goes beneath the other

• Form when two continental plates collide

• Boundary that occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other.

Continental plates are ______________ dense than oceanic plates

• More

• Less

• really

• 2 times as

Older oceanic plates are ______________ dense than younger oceanic plates

• More

• Less

• ridged

• softer than the

What will form when 2 continental plates collide?

• small islands

• rift valley

• volcanoes

• mountains

The Himalayas are formed from which kind of plate boundary?

• convergent, subduction

• divergent

• convergent, collision

• transform

Boundary occurs when two tectonic plates collide into each other.

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• vertical

Land is neither created or destroyed at a

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• subduction

All plate boundaries can cause

• earthquakes

• mountains

• volcanoes

• new crust to form

convergent collision plate boundaries

• Areas where plates move away from each other and collide, causing uplift.

• Areas where plates scrape and slip by each other and collide, causing uplift.

• Areas where plates move toward each other and collide, causing uplift.

• Areas where plates move very little but make new crust.