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When an ocean plate collides with a continental plate, a subduction zone occurs and forms a deep trench. An ocean plate is more dense while a continental plate is less dense which causes the ocean plate to go under the continental plate and pull the land and water down, forming a trench.

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What forms when a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate?

it forms a trench


What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate and sinks?

When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, the denser oceanic plate is forced beneath the continental plate in a process called subduction. This creates a deep oceanic trench. As the oceanic plate sinks, it heats up, melts, and forms magma that rises to the surface, leading to volcanic activity.


How is a volcano formed at a Continental Rift?

Volcanoes cannot be formed at a continental rift, due to the fact that a volcano cannot form between two continental plates: it normally forms when one continental plate and an oceanic plate collide. Normally, a volcano forms when one continental and one oceanic plate collides. The denser oceanic plate


What are two ways volcanoes can forms near converging plate boundaries?

Volcanoes may form where two oceanic plates collide or where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.


What feature is formed when an ocean plate collides with a continental plate?

When an ocean plate collides with a continental plate, a subduction zone occurs and forms a deep trench. An ocean plate is more dense while a continental plate is less dense which causes the ocean plate to go under the continental plate and pull the land and water down, forming a trench.


What occures when a continental and oceanic plate collide?

At some convergent boundaries, an oceanic plate collides with acontinental plate. Oceanic crust tends to be denser and thinner thancontinentalcrust, so the denser oceanic crust gets bent and pulled under, or subducted, beneath the lighter and thicker continental crust. This forms what is called a subduction zone.


What features form when a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate?

When an ocean plate collides with a continental plate, a subduction zone occurs and forms a deep trench. An ocean plate is more dense while a continental plate is less dense which causes the ocean plate to go under the continental plate and pull the land and water down, forming a trench.


What happens when a plate of oceanic crust collides with a plate of Continetal crust why?

the oceanic crust slides down and burns in the mantle and forms a volcano


What are 2 different convergent boundaries?

Oceanic-continental convergent boundary: Where oceanic plates subduct beneath continental plates, creating deep ocean trenches and volcanic arcs on the overriding plate. Continental-continental convergent boundary: Where two continental plates collide, causing intense folding and faulting to create mountain ranges. An example is the collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate, forming the Himalayas.


What forms when a continental and oceanic plate meet?

convergent boudary


What forms when oceanic plates and continental plates form?

convergent boudary


How does a trench forms?

They form when the oceanic crust goes under the Continental crust. The oceanic crust then forms the trenches through a process called subduction.