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Convergent plate boundaries are responsible for mountain building. Continent-to-continent boundaries build mountains like the Himalayas. Continent-to-ocean boundaries build mountains like the Cascades. The difference is that continent-to-continent convergent boundaries do not produce volcanoes.
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What type of plate boundary is most directly associated with mountain building?
Convergent plate boundaries.
What is an example of a convergent plate?
an example of a convergent plate/boundary are mountain ranges
Give examples of where the three types of plate movements occur?
San Andreas Fault--transform plate boundary. Himalayan Mountain Range--convergent plate boundary. Mid-ocean ridge--divergent plate boundary.
What type of plate boundary could form a mountain chain of sedimentary rock?
convergent boundary of two continental crusts
Is a mountain a example of a convergent boundary?
A mountain is an example of a possible result of converging plate boundaries. An actual example of a converging plate boundary would be the Indian-Eurasian Plate Boundarywhich is creating the Himalayan Mountain Range. Other convergent plates can create trenches such as the Mariana Trench, which is the lowest place on the surface of the Earth.
What type of plate boundary is most directly associated with mountain building?
Convergent plate boundaries.
What type of plate boundary occurs when plates come together?
Convergent boundary, which in this case would lead to mountain building (as in the Himalayas)
What type of boundary produces mountain?
convergent plate boundary
What type of boundary causes mountains?
Mountain-building is a result of continental collision, so destructive plate boundaries. One plate is destroyed by subduction below the other, which undergoes compression, buckling and uplift as the collision continues. This is happening at present in Asia, raising the Himalayan Mountains.
The Andes Mountains are an example of mountain building activity at which type of plate boundary?
The Nazca Plate, Antarctic Plate, and the South American Plate. 🌍
What is the plate boundary of the Andes mountain?
A constructive plate boundary, as it pushes land upwards (which formed the mountains)
What is an example of a convergent plate?
an example of a convergent plate/boundary are mountain ranges
How do mountain building and volcanoes relate to plate motion at converge NT boundaries?
they are both formed by converging plates at a BOUNDARY THAT PUSH UP THE EARTH
What are continental mountain ranges associated with?
Plate tectonics, (inter-continental plate collision).
Give examples of where the three types of plate movements occur?
San Andreas Fault--transform plate boundary. Himalayan Mountain Range--convergent plate boundary. Mid-ocean ridge--divergent plate boundary.
What is another type of boundary where rock layers fold to form mountain ranges?
a boundary where an oceanic plate plunges beneath a continental plate
Is the Grand Canyon a divergent boundary?
It shouldnt be on a boundary. It is well inside the the North American plate to be on a boundary. Its a canyon not a mountain range.
