What are 3 boundaries and their characteristics?

There are three main types of plate boundaries:

• Convergent boundaries: where two plates are colliding. Subduction zones occur when one or both of the tectonic plates are composed of oceanic crust.
• Divergent boundaries – where two plates are moving apart.
• Transform boundaries – where plates slide passed each other.

What are the 3 types of plate boundaries and what do they do?

Divergent boundaries — where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Convergent boundaries — where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another. Transform boundaries — where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.

What are the characteristics of a plate boundary?

Deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, island arcs, submarine mountain ranges, and fault lines are examples of features that can form along plate tectonic boundaries. Volcanoes are one kind of feature that forms along convergent plate boundaries, where two tectonic plates collide and one moves beneath the other.

What are the characteristics of convergent boundaries?

A convergent boundary, or destructive boundary, is where two plates are moving towards each other and colliding. The pressure and friction is great enough at these boundaries that the material in the Earth’s mantle can melt, and both earthquakes and volcanoes happen nearby.

What are the three 3 types of plate boundaries?

Most seismic activity occurs at three types of plate boundaries—divergent, convergent, and transform. As the plates move past each other, they sometimes get caught and pressure builds up.

What are 3 facts about convergent boundaries?

Convergent boundary facts for kids

• Oceanic crust moves under. A deep ocean trench forms at the coast, and an arc of mountainous volcanoes forms inland. Seen along the west edge of the Americas.
• Continental crust moves under. The edge of the continental plate folds into a huge mountain range. Behind it is a high plateau.

What are the three types of divergent plate boundaries?

2.4: Divergent Boundaries

• Continental Rifting.
• Mid-Ocean Ridges.