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Learning About Plate Boundaries

Discover how plate boundaries shape our planet - from conveging boundaries creating mountains and earthquakes, to divergent boundaries leading to volcanoes and ocean basins forming. Explore transform boundaries where plates slide past each other, causing earthquakes.

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Learning About Plate Boundaries

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  1. Learning About Plate Boundaries

  2. Converging (coming together) Boundary • Plates moving toward each other CRASH! • Create mountains like the Himalayas • Produces strong earthquakes.

  3. Going Under Boundary • Nazca plate being pushed under South American plate • Creating Andes Mountains • Volcanoes and earthquakes occur

  4. Divergent (pulling apart) Boundary • Mid-Atlantic Ridge • Mostly on the ocean floor. • Iceland only place you can see it on land • Lava pushes up through cracks • Earthquakes and volcanoes may occur • Ocean basins form

  5. Transform Boundary (Faults) • Plates sliding past each other • San Andreas Fault in California • Pacific plate sliding past North American plate • Earthquakes and volcanoes occur

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