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Q: Which feature is formed where oceanic plates are separating?
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How a trench formed?

a trench is formed when 2 oceanic plates collide


When two geologic plates are moving away from each other what happens?

When it is two continental plates, new oceanic crust is formed, and when this continues, more oceanic crust is formed between the plates.


What feature forms at diverging oceanic plates?

Ridges of buoyant oceanic crust form at diverging oceanic plate boundaries.


What geologic feature results when divergence occures between two oceanic plates?

a mid oceanic ridge


When two oceanic plates converge what are formed?

subduction zones


What surface feature is formed where two plates meet?

The surface feature formed when two plates meet is known as a fault. In some cases mountains can also be formed when two plates collide.


When two oceanic plates collide what physical feature forms?

Mountains and grass


Convergent boundaries can be divided into 3 categories what are these categories and what geological feature are created by each?

The categories are a continental and a continental plate colliding, continental and oceanic plates colliding, and oceanic and oceanic plates colliding. The two continental plates form mountains. The continental and oceanic plated colliding cause subduction zones and volcanoes. Oceanic and oceanic plates colliding form a trench.


What are formed when two oceanic plates collide?

volcanoes in an island arc


What zone formed where two oceanic plates collide?

zone of subduction


What floor feature forms when two oceanic plates collide?

deep sea trench


What feature results from two oceanic plates pulling away from each other?

trench