Plate Movements
Plates are sliding past each other. What type of boundary is this? Bonus: Where is this happening?
Transform.
Locations: California (San Andreas, New Zealand)
This is the term for any break in the crust. Hint: there's a famous one in California.
Fault
Where one plate slides under another one, it creates a deep spot in the ocean called this...
Trench
Plates are coming together. What type of boundary is this? Bonus: Where is this happening?
Convergent Boundary.
Locations include: Andes, Himalayas, Japan, Indonesia, Alaska
What is the term for one plate going underneath another? What plate boundary does this happen at?
Subduction. Convergent
In East Africa, the continent is splitting apart. Where the crust is pulled apart at a divergent boundary, this feature is formed
Rift
Plates are moving away from each other. What type of boundary is this? Bonus: Where is this happening?
Divergent.
Locations: Iceland, East Africa
What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge? Specify the boundary type.
A place in the middle of the ocean where plates are moving away from each other (divergent boundary) and building up a high underwater mountain range (the ridge).
Some ocean-ocean convergent boundaries create lines of volcanic islands. What are these called?
Island arcs