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A boundary where two plates meet and collide forming mountains is called a?
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A boundary where two plates meet and collide forming mountains is called a convergent boundary. It is also known as destructive plate boundary.
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What is it called when one plate is pushed another plate as they collide?
subduction boundary!!!
When continental crust and oceanic crust collide what occurs?
This is referred to as a convergent plate boundary (oceanic-continental). The denser oceanic plate is forced underneath the lighter continental plate by a process called subduction.
What happens when tectonic plates slide past each other?
What occurs when the plates slide each other is a boundary forming. this boundary is called a transform boundary.
What type of boundary is the Ural mountains?
The Ural mountains are a theoretical boundary only. They are not on a plate boundary. They have traditionally marked the border between Europe and Asia, but this is an historical and notional boundary, from before our ideas of continents were based on tectonic plates. In fact Europe and Asia are one unit, often called Eurasia.
What is it called when two tectonic plates colide?
It's referred to as a Convergent Boundary If 2 Continental Plates --> Mountains If 2 Oceanic Plates --> Subduction of Heavier (older) Plate If Continental-Oceanic --> Oceanic Plate slides under the Continental Plate (Subduction of Oceanic)
What is it called when two plates collide forming a mountain?
I think that when two continental plates collide it's called a collision margin, the mountains that then form are called fold mountains :)
What type of boundary is formed when plates collide?
When plates collide it is called a convergent boundary.newtest3
What is it called when one plate is pushed another plate as they collide?
subduction boundary!!!
What is it called when two plates collide?
Convergent boundary
What boundary formed when tectonics plate collide?
The boundary that is formed is called a Tranform Boundary
When two plates collide or crash into each other it is called a what boundary?
convergent boundary
When continental crust and oceanic crust collide what occurs?
This is referred to as a convergent plate boundary (oceanic-continental). The denser oceanic plate is forced underneath the lighter continental plate by a process called subduction.
How does the Earth's crust can move to make fold mountains?
because there is something called convergent boundary and that's when the crust pushes against the crust forming a mountain.
Which two types of plate boundary forms volcanoes?
Fault Block mountains such as the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Fold & Thrust Mountains such as the Himalayans.
What is the process that pieces of the plate that subducts may be scraped off and attached to the overriding plate forming mountains chains parallel to the plate boundary called?
An island arch.
When huge sections of the Earth collide what do they produce?
The huge sections are called tectonic plates. When they collide this is called a convergent boundary. Usually one plate is oceanic and one is continental, and the oceanic plate is forced down in a subduction zone. This forces the continental plate up, giving rise to mountains and often volcanoes.
What boundary is it where two plates push together?
An area where two tectonic plates collide is called a boundary. There are three kinds of boundaries. They are convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries.
