Question

Answer the following questions in about 30 words.
(iii) What is the major difference between the transform boundary and the
convergent or divergent boundaries of plates?

Answer 1

Answer:

Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Convergent boundaries -- where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another. Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.