subduction zones may themselves be transformed to other types of plate boundary. For example, when India collided with Asia, an active subduction zone was transformed into a collision that formed ...

Ask them to write a description of how they identified their plate boundary types. 6. Ask them to use color pencils to mark (on their individual plate boundary map) all plate boundaries in the ...

is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this collision is so great that mountains are created. Earthquakes are very common at this type of boundary as the mountains are pushed ...

Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where crust is consumed ...

At ocean-ocean convergences, one plate usually dives beneath the other, forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth. These types of ...

Where convection currents push plates together, destructive plate ... boundary. They form where two continental plates are forced together by the convection currents in the upper mantle. At ...