Plate Boundaries

1. Divergent

2. Convergent

3. Transform fault

What are the three types of boundaries?

Divergent Boundaries

What is formed when two plates move away from each other?

Ridge

The ____ is a rift or upgrowth of the ocean floor where the filling of hot magma slowly edges apart plates.

Seafloor Spreading

The unending creation solidified magma(rock) creates a new seafloor and widens the ocean basins in a process called _____ _______.

Convergent Boundaries

This if formed when two plates collide.

Mountains

What is formed when two continental plates collide?

Island arcs and trenches

What is formed when an ocean plate and continental plate collides?

Trenches and Mountains

What is formed when two oceanic plates collides?

Transform Fault Boundaries

Is a boundary at which two plates move past each other horizontally.

Plate Boundaries

______ ______ are on the ocean floor around the edges of continents or even within the continents.