The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible ... creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform ...

Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries ... where two plates slide against each other.

Ask them to find other plate boundary segments that fit ... Use Graphic 2 to discuss convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries. Explain why each of these boundaries has the particular ...

In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other ... subducting plate continues into the mantle, perhaps to reappear much later at a distant divergent boundary.

In regions of convergence, one plate can sink under another in a subduction zone, or two colliding plates can form a mountain belt. At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

This is called a constructive or divergent plate boundary. These are usually found ... Plates can also move past each other, like at the San Andreas Fault in the USA, which forms the tectonic ...