More About Plate Boundaries. Convergent Continental Crust collides with Continental Crust 1. What landforms are built? ___________________ 2. Are volcanoes.

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More About Plate Boundaries

Convergent Continental Crust collides with Continental Crust 1. What landforms are built? ___________________ 2. Are volcanoes formed at this collision? _________ 3. Where in the world has this happened? _____________ Mountain ranges No Eurasian and Indian plate boundary (Himalayan Mountains)

Divergent Ocean Crust pulls apart from Ocean Crust 1. What landforms are built? ______________________ 2. Where does this happen? ______________________ 3. What causes the new crust to form? ______________ Mid-Ocean Ridges Mid-Atlantic Ridge Magma

Convergent Oceanic Crust collides with Continental Crust 1. What landforms are built? ____________________ 2. Where does this happen? ____________________ Trenches and Volcanic Mountains Nazca and S. American Plate Boundary

Transform Two plates slide side by side 1. What effects are felt here? __________________ Earthquakes

Questions: 1. What type of crust can be found on the Nazca Plate?_________________________ 2. What type of crust can be found on the South American plate where it meets the Nazca Plate?____________________ 3. Look at the arrows. What type of plate boundary would you expect to find here? ___________________ 4. What types of crust are colliding here? _________________________ 5. What landforms would you expect to find?___________________________ Oceanic Continental Convergent Oceanic and Continental Trenches and Volcanic Arc

6. Find the mid-Atlantic Ridge. What type of crust is found on either side? _________________________ 7. Look at the arrows. What type of plate boundary would you expect to find here? _______________ 8. What type of crust is pulling apart here? _________ 9. What is being created at this boundary? ____________ Oceanic Divergent Oceanic New Crust & mid-ocean ridge

Exit Ticket

1. What happens at a divergent boundary? A. Plates push together B. Plate pull apart C. Plates slide past each other 2. What types of crust occur on the earth? A. Olympic and continental B. Continental and oceanic C. Oceanic and corporeal B. Plate pull apart B. Continental and oceanic

3. What effects can be felt at transform boundaries? A. geysers B. hot springs C. earthquakes 4. Where is new crust formed on the earth? A. along mid-ocean planes B. along mid-continent ridges C. along mid-ocean ridges C. earthquakes C. along mid-ocean ridges

5. Where do volcanoes form? A. Where oceanic and oceanic crusts collide B. Where oceanic and continental crusts collide C. Where continental and continental crusts collide A. Where oceanic and oceanic crusts collide B. Where oceanic and continental crusts collide A. Where oceanic and oceanic crusts collide B. Where oceanic and continental crusts collide