Plate Boundary Landforms

Start with the mind maps

This page brings together a small collection of resources on landforms at plate boundaries. For an overview, start with the map on landforms found at different plate boundaries. It includes fold mountains and describes how plates moving toward each other can create pressure.

For a closer look at the processes, move on to Folding and Faulting. Its branches include compression, tension and shearing, as well as rocks being squeezed, bent and broken. Tectonic Plates KQ2 brings together volcanoes, earthquakes, fold mountains, rift valleys and block mountains.

Practice with flashcards and quizzes

Ocean Trenches uses questions about where trenches form and how they develop. The map The Restless Earth also covers plate margins and describes subduction at a destructive margin. Studying these resources together can help you connect the questions in the flashcards with the process shown in the map.

After studying a map, try Geography Quiz Plate Tectonics GW2. Its questions include what causes folding and where fold mountains are located. There is also a GCSE Geography quiz with questions about fold mountains, ocean trenches and volcanoes at a destructive plate margin. Return to the relevant map after a question to check the process again.

Use the topic within Plate Tectonics

Plate Boundary Landforms is a section of the Plate Tectonics unit in Geography. The maps, flashcards and quizzes offer different ways to study the same section: maps organize ideas, flashcards pose questions, and quizzes let students practice answering them. Teachers can also use the collection to find material on a particular landform or process.

Choose a resource that fits what you are studying and use it alongside the rest of the Plate Tectonics unit.