Question Answer Expalanation

( What A. Plates move in

opposite directions
Question) B. Plates move in the
What happens at a same direction, but
conservative plate at different speeds
boundary? C. Plates move either
in opposite
directions or in the
same direction, but
at different speeds
D. Plates move side by
side
C. Plates move either in opposite
directions or in the same
direction, but at different speeds
A conservative plate boundary,
sometimes called a transform plate
margin, occurs where plates slide past
each other in opposite directions, or in the
same direction but at different speeds.
Friction is eventually overcome and the
plates slip past in a sudden movement.
The shockwaves created produce
an earthquake.
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(Why A. Because
Plate
the Nazca
is moving
B. Because oceanic crust is
sinking  in driven by the

Question) eastwards,
the South
towards
American
temperature difference between
the slab and the surrounding
Plate, at about 79mm asthenosphere, as the
per year.  colder oceanic lithosphere
B. Because oceanic has, on average, a greater
crust is sinking  in density.
Why does the oceanic
driven by the - The oceanic crust get pushed
crust get pushed temperature downward because the
downwards when difference between sinking is driven by the
pressed against a the slab and the
temperature difference between
continental plate in a surrounding
asthenosphere, as
the slab and the surrounding
convergent boundary? asthenosphere, as the
the colder oceanic
lithosphere colder oceanic lithosphere
has, on average, a has, on average, a greater
greater density. density. Sediments and some
C. Because a transform trapped
plate water are carried downwards by
boundary developed the slab and recycled into the
where the deep mantle.
Pacific Plate was in
contact with the North
American Plate and
the volcanism ceased
in central California.
D. Because of the mid-
ocean ridge separating
the Farallon and
Pacific Plates entered
the subduction zone,
A. The two plates A. The two plates push against
(How push against each other and the crust
 each other and compresses, bends and
question) the crust cracks, pushing materials up
How does the compresses, and down towards the mantle.
continental crust bends and This is how high mountain
pushes against cracks, pushing ranges are formed.
another continental materials up and - The both sides of the convergent boundary
crust? down towards the have similar properties (thick and
mantle. This is buoyant). Neither side of the boundary
how high resists sinking beneath the other. As a
mountain ranges result the two plates push against each
other and the crust compresses, bends
are formed.
and cracks, pushing materials up and
B. Two plates down towards the mantle. This is how
move apart and high mountain ranges are formed. This
new land is can explain how the Himalayas
(Himalayan Mountain Range) is formed.
created. The Himalayas is a product of the collision
C. The Plates are between the Eurasian Plate and Indian
move in Plate. The convergence between these
opposite two plates began approximately 15 million
years ago and still continues today. India
directions used to be an island, but about 15 million
D. One of the years ago it crashed into Asia. As the
plates pushing continental crust (Indian Plate) was
pushing against another continental crust
backward.
(Eurasian Plate) the Himalayan mountain
belt was pushed up.
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