Types of Plate Boundaries

What is a Tectonic Plate?

• A special dish used to hold tectonic ice cream

• A huge piece of rock and minerals that makes up the lithosphere

• A huge piece of rock and minerals that makes up the asthenosphere

• An instrument used to detect seismic waves

Where two tectonic plates move toward one another:

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Mid Ocean Ridge

Where two tectonic plates move side-by-side with one another:

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Mountain Building

Where two tectonic plates move away from one another:

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Subduction Zone

This type of plate boundary creates land:

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

Answer explanation

Remember, when two plates split apart something has to fill in between them. This is the hot magma that cools into new rock and land!

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Which type of plate boundary destroys land?

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

Answer explanation

Remember, when two plates converge, meaning they move toward one another, one plate will subduct beneath the other, destroying the sinking plate!