1. Plate Boundaries of Earth’s Land Features
By: Stacy Vinson

2. What do I write in my foldable?
Cause Type of Boundary Motion at Boundary
Effect
Land Feature Formed
Example

3. Convergent Boundaries
Motion at Boundaries- Collision of Continental crust with continental crust.
Land Feature Formed- Folded Mountains
Actual Examples- Himalayas

4. Convergent Boundary – Indian and Eurasian Plates
Indian Plate

5. Divergent Boundaries
Motion at Boundary- moving away causing sea floor spreading.
Land Features Formed- Midocean Ridges and Rift Valleys
Examples- Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Iceland

6. Divergent Boundary – Arabian and African Plates
Arabian Plate
Red Sea
African Plate

7. Transform Boundaries
Motion at Boundary- sliding past each other (shearing)
Land Feature Formed- Transform Fault
Example- San Andres Fault

8. Transform Boundary – San Andreas Fault

9. Convergent Boundaries and Subduction
Motion at Boundary-
Collision of Oceanic Crust/Oceanic Crust
Land Feature formed- Volcanic Mountains, Island Arcs
Example- Aleutian Islands
Collision of Continental Crust and Oceanic Crust
Land Feature formed- Trench, Volcanic Mountains
Example- Andes Mountains

10. Convergent Boundary – Oceanic & Oceanic
Note – plates are reversed
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11. Convergent Boundary – Oceanic & Continental
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12. Sources http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/unanswered.html