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Tectonic Plates.
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Year 9 Science Mind Map on Tectonic Plates., created by Jasmine Aboud on 29/07/2015.
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Tectonic Plates.
Huge slabs of crust.
Plate boundaries are where the plates meet.
Convergent.
Subduction.
Oceanic meet continental plates.
Volcanoes are formed.
Causes earthquake.
Collision zone.
Two continental plates meet each other.
Forms mountains.
Himalayas.
Divergent or Constructive.
Two plates move away from each other.
Causes shield volcanoes from rising magma
North American plate moving away from Eurasian plate.
Creating Mid-Atlantic and Iceland through volcanic activity.
Conservative.
Two slates just slide past each other.
Causes earthquakes.
San Andreas Fault.
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