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Move towards each other
How to remember:
Convergent crust collides |
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Move away from each other
How to remember:
Divergent divides |
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Move past each other
How to remember:
It's the only one where they move past each other |
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| Land forms created by divergent boundaries |
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Definition
Rift valleys
and
Mid ocean ridges |
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Term
| Divergent: continental-continental |
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Definition
The 2 pieces of continental crust slide away from each other and rift valleys are created
* Magma comes up from the mantle and creates new land |
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Term
| Divergent: oceanic-oceanic |
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Definition
The 2 pieces of oceanic crust slide away from each other.
* Causes seafloor spreading
* Magma comes up from the mantle and creates new land |
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| Land forms created by convergent boundaries |
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Definition
Deep sea trenches
Volcanoes (island arc)
Mountains |
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| Convergent: oceanic-continental |
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Definition
| The more dense oceanic crust sinks below the less dense continental crust * Called a subduction zone * Creates deep sea trench * Forms volcanoes |
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| Convergent: oceanic-oceanic |
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Definition
The older, cooler, more dense sinks below the younger, less dense crust just like oceanic-continental
* Creates deep sea trench
* Forms volcanoes |
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| Convergent: continental-continenal |
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Definition
The 2 pieces of crust slam into each other, neither sinking due to low density
*Creates mountains |
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| Land forms created by transform boundaries |
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Definition
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Definition
The plates slide past each other
* Creates earthquakes |
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