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The tectonic plates move divergent when they move away from each other, convergent when they are colliding with each other, and trasform when they slide past each other.

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What kind of plates cause volcanoes?

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Active volcanoes are most likely to form at .?

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Why does magma aften form at the boundary between separating tectonic plates?

It is because volcanoes form by two tectonic plates which when both collide and they form volcanoes which a magma rock forms when it explodes.