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No, both the continental and oceanic plates are always moving. Moving slowly, but always moving.
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Match the mountains with the plates involved?
Aleutians: Two oceanic plates Appalachians: Two continental plates Andes: One continental plate, one oceanic plate Nore American Cordillera: One island plateau, one continental plate :D
Place where older crust is destroyed because two plates converge or push together?
continental-continental collision I think. When I got down to the last one, that was the only answer left.
What two continental plates collide?
the north American one and the European one
What types of boundaries have subduction zones?
Convergent boundaries can form between two oceanic plates, between one oceanic plate and one continental plate, or between two continental plates.
How do volcano's form when oceanic and continental plates collide?
Mountains form where continental and oceanic plates collide by the actions of the plates upon one another. Often one plate pushes up and over the other one, and the upper one creates a row of mountains.
Match the feature or term in column 1 to the the characteristics in column 2?
Volcano develops from one place lives under another continental drift moving plates subduction zone were oceanic crust collides with the continental crust magma made from melting plates I voice typed
These are formed when oceanic plates slide under continental plates?
When oceanic plates slide under continental plates they form subduction zones. Subduction zones always occur at convergent boundaries where one plate slides beneath another plate.
Where does subdution occur?
Subduction (I believe that's what you meant) occurs at CONVERGENT boundaries, where two plates collide and the less dense one remains and the denser one sinks. An example of subduction is two oceanic plates colliding. Oceanic plates contain mainly basalt, which is dense. The oceanic plate closer to a heat source (hot spot, volcano) would remain in place while the denser plate sinks (cold water is denser than hot water so it sinks) below the other. When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, the oceanic plate sinks because granite (what continental plates are composed of mainly) is less dense than basalt, therefore the oceanic plate would sink. However, when two continental plates collide, because both plates are made of granite and are not very dense, they push and shape the land into mountains.
What type of geologic feature will form two continental plates collide ( Explain)?
Mountain ranges are formed when two continental plates collide. When they converge one plate will be forced slightly under the other one.
What type of geologic feature will form where two continental plates collide explain?
Mountain ranges are formed when two continental plates collide. When they converge one plate will be forced slightly under the other one.
What are convertgent boundaries?
A conversion boundary is a place where 2 tectonic plates are mving toward each other. There are 3 types of convergent boundaries OCEANIC CRUST-OCEANIC CRUST OCEANIC CRUST-CONTINENTAL CRUST CONTINENTAL CRUST-CONTINENTAL CRUST They are classified according to their crust
Does conservative plate boundary have continental plate in it?
not nescessarily. It could be two plates of any kind rubbing against each other. Sometimes it is two continental plates or one of each.
