Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Tectonic Plates.
- Huge slabs of crust.
- Plate boundaries are where the plates meet.
- Convergent.
- Subduction.
- Oceanic meet continental plates.
- Volcanoes are formed.
- Causes earthquake.
- Collision zone.
- Two continental plates meet each other.
- Forms mountains.
- Himalayas.
- Divergent or Constructive.
- Two plates move away from each other.
- Causes shield volcanoes from rising magma
- North American plate moving away from Eurasian plate.
- Creating Mid-Atlantic and Iceland through volcanic activity.
- Conservative.
- Two slates just slide past each other.
- Causes earthquakes.
- San Andreas Fault.