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Understanding Plate Boundaries

Student: Aidan Fingeret
Across
When 2 plates get separated apart. This results in earthquakes as well as volcanoes
When two lithospheric plates move apart the magma comes up from the lower mantle and forms volcanic mountain formations or volcanoes
Colliding oceanic and continental plates. When this happens the oceanic plate get pushed down into the lower mantle so the plate get's destroyed. Then the lithospheric plates form again because of magma cooling into rock. This results in earthquakes as well as volcanic rock formations
Down
Colliding oceanic and oceanic or continental and continental plates in which results in earthquakes and non-volcanic mountain formations
When 2 plates slide past each other which results in earthquakes
When either two oceanic or two continental plates collide one plate pushes the other plate up to form non-volcanic mountains
When lithospheric plates move they form earthquakes