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What occurs near plate boundaries?

What forms at diverging plate boundaries?

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What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?

What are the 3 types of convergent plate

boundaries?

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Explain how rift valleys form.

The Himalayas are made from what type of

plate boundaries?

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What kind of currents drive plate movement?

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10. Bill Nye - do it yourself science

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Plate Boundaries

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Some plates are moving towards

each other ( Indian Plate colliding

into the Eurasian Plate)

Some plates are moving away from

Some are sliding past each other -

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1. Divergent Boundaries: twoplates are moving away from eachother

Examples:

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2. Convergent Boundariesmoving toward each other

a. Ocean-to-oceanExample

b. Continent-to-oceanExample: Cascade Range

c. Continent-to-continentExample: Himalayan Mountains

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Ocean-to-ocean Convergence

Ocean-to-ocean Convergence

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Ocean-to-ocean Convergence

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ocean-to-continent Convergence

p2

ocean-to-continent Convergence

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ocean-to-continent Convergence

Real Life Example: Cascade Range

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Continent-to-continent Convergence

p3

Continent-to-continent Convergence

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Continent-to-continent Convergence

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3.each other

p2p3

crust

Crust

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Real Life Example: California

Plates move apart where convection

currents are bringing magma to surface.

are sinking.

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Convergent:

Divergent:

Plate tectonics lab!

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