Name: George Reginald C.

Fernando Grade and Section: 10-Rizal

Learning Activity Sheet 4
Plate Boundaries

The crust of the Earth is broken into plates which are on the move due to convection currents below in the Asthenosphere layer
of the Mantel. Plates that run into one another are called convergent. Plates that are spreading or moving away from one
another are called divergent. Plates that are sliding by one another are called transform. Your job is to use the diagram below
to complete the chart below on the different types of plate boundaries.

TRANSFORM Divergent Convergent * Label the Boundary/Margin type for the 3

diagrams on the left.
 Draw some convection currents in the diagram above that would explain the hot spot and the divergent boundary.

Type of Margin/Boundary
Convergent Divergent Transform
Motion (Describe Move collide two tectonic Moving away from each Moves into spreding ridge and
the motion of one plates other abruptly connect to another
plate plate
relative to another)

Effect (Is it constructive Detructive because its Constructive because when Constructive because it move’s
or destructive to 1 or colliding to each other they move away from each in
more resulting the cracking of the other they construct another A different plate
of the adjacent plates?) marginal bounderies plate without ruin the
bounderies

Topography (What Plain in topography The topographyc sketch of Usually you don’t really
are the landforms that divergent plate Moves up “see” a fault line at a
are and down transform margin.
associated with this Sometimes you do.
type of margin?)

Volcanic Activity? No Yes Yes

(Yes/No)

Earthquake Yes Yes Yes

Activity?
(Yes/No)

Use your plate map The oceanic
to identify 2 places Nazca Plate subducts
in the world with beneath the continental
this type of South American Plate at
plate boundary/margin the Peru–Chile Trench.
Just north of the
Nazca Plate, the oceanic
Cocos Plate subducts
under the
Caribbean Plate and forms
the Middle America
Trench.
Perhaps the best known of
the divergent
boundaries is the Mid-
Atlantic Ridge. This
submerged mountain range,
which extends from the
Arctic Ocean to beyond the
southern tip of Africa, is but
one segment of the global
mid-ocean ridge system
that encircles the Earth
The most famous example of
this is the San Andreas Fault
Zone of western North
America. The San Andreas
connects a
divergent boundary in the
Gulf of California with the
Cascadia subduction zone.
Another example of
a transform boundary on
land is the Alpine Fault of
New Zealand.
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Plate Boundaries Cutouts