There are 3 types of ... including: Convergent (destructive,collision), Divergent (constructive) and Transform (conservative)
Plate boundaries
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Plate Boundary: A constructive plate boundary, Oceanic-oceanic or continental-continental. They form Mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes and volcano chains. Plates move away from each other creating a gap which is filled by rising magma
Divergent
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Plate Boundary: Oceanic-continental plates. The denser oceanic plate is forced down by continental drift in the subduction process. There is the creation of Fold Mountains, Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Ocean trench
Convergent
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Plate Boundary: Oceanic-oceanic plates. The more dense oceanic plate is forced down by the less dense oceanic plate. An ocean trench is formed very deep (6000-11,000m deep) because of the constant downward force by 2 dense plates
Convergent
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Plate Boundary: Continental-continental plates: There is little subduction because the plates have similar densities. Mountains are formed e.g. Himalayas on Eurasian plate-Indian plate
Convergent
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Plate boundary: Continental-continental plates. The plates slide past each other, rub and create friction as well as pressure in large amounts. They form Faults and Earthquakes. E.g. San Andreas Fault, California
Conservative
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Card 2
Front
Plate Boundary: A constructive plate boundary, Oceanic-oceanic or continental-continental. They form Mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes and volcano chains. Plates move away from each other creating a gap which is filled by rising magma
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Divergent
Card 3
Front
Plate Boundary: Oceanic-continental plates. The denser oceanic plate is forced down by continental drift in the subduction process. There is the creation of Fold Mountains, Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Ocean trench
Back
Card 4
Front
Plate Boundary: Oceanic-oceanic plates. The more dense oceanic plate is forced down by the less dense oceanic plate. An ocean trench is formed very deep (6000-11,000m deep) because of the constant downward force by 2 dense plates
Back
Card 5
Front
Plate Boundary: Continental-continental plates: There is little subduction because the plates have similar densities. Mountains are formed e.g. Himalayas on Eurasian plate-Indian plate
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