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11 Cards in this Set
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This type of boundary is where two plates move towards each other |
Convergent Boundary |
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This is a boundary where the younger and denser oceanic crust is abducted under the older, lighter continental crust |
Oceanic-Continental |
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This is a boundary where one oceanic plate is subducted under oceanic plate |
Oceanic-Oceanic |
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This is a boundary where a continental plate collides with a second continental plate |
Continental-continental |
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This location is where two plates are moving away from each other |
Divergent boundary |
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This location is where two plates are sliding past one another |
Transform Boundary |
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Is a boundary where neither of the plates are subducted because the continental rock is too light to be carried very far into the dense material |
Continent-Continent convergent zone |
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This is where two oceanic plates meet. The denser plate is subducted under the less dense |
Oceanic-Oceanic plate convergent Zone |
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Is created from volcanoes which erupt through this top plate as the sinking plate melts below |
Island Arc |
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These are two plates that move toward each other. The oceanic plates which is denser subducts under the less dense continental plate, sinking down into the hot astenosphere of the mantle |
Oceanic-Continent plate convergence zone |
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The two tectonic plates grind past each other in a horizontal direction. This movement results in a crack or fracture in a Earth's crust called fault |
Transform boundaries |
