Plate Boundaries

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Transform

Plates slide side-by-side against one another, causing earthquakes

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Divergent

Plates move away from one another, forming mid-ocean ridges, creating a young crust on the ocean floor

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Convergent

Plants move towards each other

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Oceanic-oceanic

One of the two oceanic plates is subducted into the mantle, magma rises, forming volcanoes; also creates trenches

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Oceanic-continental

Oceanic plates is subducted into the mantle, and magma rises, forming mountain ranges usually containing volcanoes

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Continental-continental

Neither plate is fully subducted; the plates are forced into one another, forming tall mountains