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Diverging Plate Boundaries
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What is it called when two plates hit each other?
When two tectonic plates meet, we get a "plateboundary." There are three major types of plate boundaries. If two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary. Usually, one of the convergingplateswill move beneath the other, which is known as subduction.
What type of plate boundary form a mid ocean ridge?
A mid-ocean ridge forms at the divergent plate boundary. This boundary initially forms rifts that later on become rift valleys.
At which plate boundaries do most volcanoes form?
Most volcanoes form at a convergent plate boundary. Simply put when a oceanic plate and a continental plate hit each other face on the subduction of the oceanic plate causes the magma to rise and the converging of the plates makes a mountain and the magma rises through the top creating a volcano.
What type of plate boundary could form a mountain chain of sedimentary rock?
convergent boundary of two continental crusts
How and why does an oceanic trench form?
The earth has plates and when the earth shirfts its plates it open a trench canyon like structure. sorry if my grammer is not perfect. An oceanic trench forms when a denser plate is subducted into the Earth at a convergent plate margin. Because the denser plate (always oceanic crust) is being bent and pulled down into the mantle, a trench forms at this subduction zone.
What plate boundary does a deep ocean trench form on?
spreading
What causes to form at a convergent plate boundary?
the mid ocean ridges cause the magma to form at a convergent plate boundary.
What causes Magma to form a convergent plate boundary?
the mid ocean ridges cause the magma to form at a convergent plate boundary.
What causes an ocean trench form?
subduction of an oceanic plate under a continental plate.
What causes magma to form at a convergent boundary?
the mid ocean ridges cause the magma to form at a convergent plate boundary.
What is it called when two plates hit each other?
When two tectonic plates meet, we get a "plateboundary." There are three major types of plate boundaries. If two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary. Usually, one of the convergingplateswill move beneath the other, which is known as subduction.
What causes magma to form at a convergant plate?
the mid ocean ridges cause the magma to form at a convergent plate boundary.
Plate with oceanic crust sinking under another plate with oceanic crust?
When two oceanic plates or two plates both containing oceanic crust collide or converge, the convergent boundary will form a trench. The plate which has the higher density will plunge beneath the other plate forming a trench.
What form when a oceanic plate collides with oceanic plate?
a trench will form
What causes magma to form at convergent boundaries?
the mid ocean ridges cause the magma to form at a convergent plate boundary.
What boundary does a deep ocean trench form on?
spreading
What type of plate boundary does pacific and N American plate form?
Convergent plate boundary.
