ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

•What is a plate boundary?

•What are the different types of plate
boundaries,
•How moving plates form rift
valleys, mountain ranges, and
volcanoes, and;
•How to locate the different plate
boundaries on earth.
TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARIES
PLATE BOUNDARY

 the border between

two tectonic plates
CONVERGENT BOUNDARY
 When two plates move
toward to each other.

Subduction
 SUBDUCTION
 “subducere”- to draw away from
below
 process where a portion of tectonic
plates are diving beneath other
plates that can form a region called
“Subduction Zone”
EXAMPLE
 Mt. St. Helens- Juan de Fuca plate goes
under the North American Plate.
 THREE TYPES OF
CONVERGENT
BOUNDARY
1. Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence
2. Continental-Continental
Convergence
3. Oceanic-Continental Convergence
CONVERGENT
(OCEANIC-OCEANIC)
BOUNDARY
• it occurs when two oceanic plates
meet and one oceanic plates pushed
underneath the other.
•It forms building of arcs of volcanic
island such as Japanese And Philippine
island
CONVERGENT
(CONTINENTAL-CONTINENTAL)
BOUNDARY
•The two plates have the same
density, they buckle up and move
to a higher elevation.
• It form Mountain Ranges Such as
Himalayas Range
CONVERGENT
(OCEANIC-CONTINENTAL)
BOUNDARY
•When an oceanic plates collide
with a continental plate.
• It forms mountain ranges and
Volcanic island as well.
• Trenches (ex. Atacama Trench
& Mariana Trench)
DIVERGENT BOUNDARY
 When two plates move apart.
 Features:
In continents:
 Rift Valley, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

In oceans:
 Mid-Ocean Ridge, Volcanoes, Earthquakes
 It form new ocean floor
and oceanic crust
EXAMPLES:
 Great Rift Valley, Africa
 Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Atlantic Ocean
EXAMPLE: GREAT RIFT VALLEY,
AFRICA
SLIDING/TRANSFORM
BOUNDARY
 When two plates slide past each other.
 Features: Earthquakes
EXAMPLE:
California- Pacific Plate
slides past the North
American Plate at the
San Andreas Fault.
ACTIVITY: LOCATE MY
BOUNDARIES
TECTONIC TECTONIC PLATE
PLATES MOVEMENT
INVOLVED
KNOW YOUR
BOUNDARIES: IDENTIFY THE
FOLLOWING STATEMENTS IF IT
IS CONVERGENT, DIVERGENT
AND TRANSFORM.
 1. It occurs when two plates are
pushing toward each other

 2. Where two lithospheric plates

move apart from each other

 3. This boundary marked by a mid-

oceanic ridge which is a
characteristic of oceanic-spreading
center responsible for seafloor
spreading.
 4. This mechanisms build the
earth’s great mountain ranges
including the Himalayas Mountain.

 5. An example of this is Great Rift

Valley in East Africa.

 6. It moves the plate in an opposite

direction.
 7. This type of boundary causes
significant earthquakes.
 8. This type of mechanism does not
allow molten material escape
upward. Therefore, it causes no
volcanism.
 9. It originated from the segment of
the Phillipinne Fault such as west
valley fault
 10. It forms different trenches such
as Marianas Trench