Sarah J’Nhelle G. Rocacorba 10 St.

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III. ANALYZING IDEAS

1. jUse a triple Venn diagram to describe, compare, and contrast the three plate boundaries.

CONVERGENT (COLLIDING)
Also called as destructive plate boundary.
It occurs where two plates are pushing toward each
other.
The crust is destroyed and recycled back into the interior
of Earth, while one plate dives under another.

 The earthquake they produce are

 They has a compression forces. stronger and devastating.
DIVERGENT  They both can make a type of  Are interacting and colliding with
TRANSFORM
(SPREADING) mountain. each other. FAULT
 They are all
Also called as a (LATERAL)
Plate boundaries.
Constructive boundary  They can cause an Also called as a Conservative
Two lithospheric plates move apart. earthquake. boundary.
The crust is generated Is a zone between two plates that slide
Is characterized by tensional stresses that horizontally past one another.
normally produce long rift zones, normal  There are The transform boundary neither create nor
faults, and basaltic volcanism. volcanoes. destroys a crust.
Are generally vertical and parallel to the
direction of movement.
2. Why are transform faults harder to find than divergent and convergent boundaries?

>> Because of its zigzag pattern of movement, most of the faults are found in oceanic
crust, where they accommodate the lateral offset between segments of divergent
boundaries.