Plate boundaries

Cards (62)

  • Divergent
    plates move away from each other
  • Divergent
    forms: mid-ocean ridges
  • Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    divergent
  • Carlsberg Ridge

    divergent
  • Pacific-Antartic Ridge 

    Divergent
  • East Pacific Rise
    mid-ocean ridge; divergent
  • convergent
    plates move toward each other
  • convergent
    plates move toward each other
  • oceanic-oceanic (convergent)

    one of the two oceanic plates is subducted into the mantle, magma rises
  • oceanic-oceanic (convergent)

    forms: volcanoes, trenches
  • Mount ----
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • ---- Volcano
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Mariana Trench
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • ----- Trench
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Eyjafjallajökull (E15), Iceland
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Mauna Loa

    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Pico do Fogo
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Pacaya
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Villarica
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Shishaldin
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Stromboli
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Cotopaxi
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Sierra Negra
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Cerro Azul
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Wolf
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Alcedo
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Darwin
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Ecuador
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Krakatoa
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Agung
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • Poas
    oceanic-oceanic; convergent
  • oceanic-continental (convergent)

    the oceanic plate is subducted into the mantle, magma rises
  • oceanic-continental (convergent)

    forms: mountain ranges usually containing volcanoes
  • Andes
    oceanic-continental; convergent
  • Himalayas
    oceanic-continental; convergent
  • Cascade Range / Cascades
    oceanic-continental; convergent
  • --- mountains
    oceanic-continental; convergent
  • ---- range
    oceanic-continental; convergent
  • ---- highlands
    oceanic-continental; convergent
  • Sierra Madre Occidental

    oceanic-continental; convergent