Real World Boundary Examples
California has many earthquakes because of this fault.
What is the San Andreas fault?
At this type of boundary you will find fault zones.
What is a Transform boundary?
This is the location of the youngest crust on Earth due to magma rising and cooling rapidly.
Where/what is the mid-ocean ridge?
Name the types boundaries that you will find volcanoes.
What are convergent and divergent boundaries?
The area in earth where an earthquake originates.
What is the focus?
The name given to the area in the Atlantic ocean where plates are diverging.
What is the mid-Atlantic ridge?
At this type of plate boundary you will find earthquakes and mountains, be specific.
What is a continental - continental convergent plate boundary?
When comparing the amound of sediment on an area of the ocean floor, this area will have more sediment?
What are areas farther from the mid-ocean ridge?
Name the type of boundary you will find a strike-slip fault.
What is a transform boundary?
name the type of boundary you will find a normal fault.
What is a divergent boundary?
This group of mountains formed where 2 tectonic plates collided and continue to get higher every year.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
At this type of boundary you can find earthquakes, volcanoes, and rift valleys.
What is a divergent boundary?
This is the term given to the concept of new crust being formed at a mid-ocean ridge and pushing the opposing boundaries away from each other.
What is seafloor spreading?
Name the type of boundary you will find a reverse fault.
What is a convergent boundary?
The area on earth directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
The name of the mountain range in north America where the pacific plate is converging under the north american plate.
What are the Cascade mountains?
At this type of boundary you may find earthquakes, volcanoes, trenches, subduction zone, and volcanic mountains, be specific.
What is a continental - oceanic convergent boundary?
This is the different alignment of the metalic minerals in rocks of the seafloor.
What is magnetic signature?
This is a volcano not found at a plate boundary (Hawaiian Islands).
What is a hotspot.
When the subducted plate melts, the pocket of magma will become this.
What is a volcano?
The name given to the area where the India plate is converging with the Eurasia plate.
What are the Himalayan mountains?
At this type of boundary you will find earthquakes, volcanoes, subduction zone, and island arcs, be specific.
What is a oceanic - oceanic convergent boundary?
The term given to the area of the seafloor that is older an smooth.
What is the abyssal plain?
The boundary(s) where you will find earhquakes.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries?
The name given to the area around the Pacific plate where many volcanoes and earthquakes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?