Question

What are the three types of plate boundaries? Write their characteristic features.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Three main types of plate boundaries:

• Divergent: extensional; the plates move apart. Spreading ridges, basin-range.
• Convergent: compressional; plates move toward each other. Includes: Subduction zones and mountain building.
• Transform: shearing; plates slide past each other. Strike-slip motion.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Types:

There are three types of tectonic plate boundaries:

*Plates rip apart at a divergent plate boundary, causing volcanic activity and shallow earthquakes

*At a convergent plate boundary, one plate dives (“subducts”) beneath the other, resulting in a variety of earthquakes and a line of volcanoes on the overriding plate

*Transform plate boundaries are where plates slide laterally past one another, producing shallow earthquakes but little or no volcanic activity.

Characteristics features:

Deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, island arcs, submarine mountain ranges, and fault lines are examples of features that can form along plate tectonic boundaries. Volcanoes are one kind of feature that forms along convergent plate boundaries, where two tectonic plates collide and one moves beneath the other.