Types of Plate Boundaries Notes “Cheat Sheet”
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Transform Boundary:
Continental-Continental
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No clear land features
Shallow earthquakes, fairly scattered
Few volcanoes
Divergent Boundaries: (2 types)
Oceanic Plates:
 Ridge forming along divergent boundary that falls off in elevation to either side.
 Earthquakes in a line on the boundary, volcanoes
Continental Plates:
 Earthquakes and volcanoes along the boundary
 May form a rift valley
 Sea formation
Convergent Boundaries: (3 types)
Continental-Continental:
 Mountains at collision boundary
 Scattered earthquakes that are shallow to intermediate in depth
 Few, if any, volcanoes
Oceanic-Oceanic:
 One plate subducts (gets pushed under) other.
 Island arcs (in an arc shape) form on overriding plate
 Subduction plate forms a trench on overriding plate
 Earthquakes
Oceanic-Continental:
 Ocean plate subducts (gets pushed under) continental plate.
 Volcanoes and mountains in a line on continental side, trench off-shore on oceanic
side.