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Tectonic Plates.
Mind map: Tectonic plates
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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.
- Oceanic meet continental plates.
- Collision zone.
- Two continental plates meet each other.
- Forms mountains.
- Himalayas.
- Forms mountains.
- Two continental plates meet each other.
- Subduction.
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.
- North American plate moving away from Eurasian plate.
- Causes shield volcanoes from rising magma
- Two plates move away from each other.
Conservative.
- Two slates just slide past each other.
- Causes earthquakes.
- San Andreas Fault.
- Causes earthquakes.
- Two slates just slide past each other.
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- Cambridge IGCSE Geography (Tectonic Plates) Mind Map on Tectonic Plates., created by guglielmoalonzo on 08/01/2014.
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