Tectonic Plate Boundaries!
by whitney cook
1. Convergent Boundary
1.1. At a Convergent plate boundary, 2 tectonic plates are moving towards one another, or converging together. One plate slides under the other and melts back into the mantle in a Subduction zone. Land forms that result from this are mountains, such as the Andes Mountains in South America and trenches.
2. Transform Boundary
2.1. At a Transform fault boundary, 2 plates are sliding past one another. No major land forms are created at this type of boundary. An example of this is the San Andreas Fault in California.
3. Divergent Boundary
3.1. At a Divergent boundary, 2 plates are pulling apart. Resulting land forms are rift valleys and ridges, such as Africa's Great Rift Valley and the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
