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- 1 What type of plate boundary is associated with the Philippines Japan and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska?
- 2 What type of plate boundary is associated with mountains?
- 3 What kind of plate boundary is found where the North American and Caribbean plates meet?
- 4 Which geographic features are associated with a divergent boundary?
What type of plate boundary is associated with the Philippines Japan and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska?
convergent plate boundary
Japan, Indonesia, the Philippine Islands, and the Aleutian Islands of Alaska are examples of island arcs (Figure below). A convergent plate boundary subduction zone between two plates of oceanic lithosphere. Melting of the subducting plate causes volcanic activity and earthquakes.
What type of plate boundary formed the Himalayan Mountains and the Rocky Mountains?
Examples of continent-continent convergent boundaries are the collision of the India Plate with the Eurasian Plate, creating the Himalaya Mountains, and the collision of the African Plate with the Eurasian Plate, creating the series of ranges extending from the Alps in Europe to the Zagros Mountains in Iran.
What type of plate boundary is associated with mountains?
convergent plate boundaries
Natural phenomena such as earthquakes, mountain formation, and volcanoes occur at plate boundaries. Mountains are usually formed at what are called convergent plate boundaries, meaning a boundary at which two plates are moving towards one another. This type of boundary eventually results in a collision.
What type of convergent boundary is Japan?
subduction
Japan has been situated in the convergent plate boundary during long geohistorical ages. This means that the Japanese islands are built under the subduction tectonics. The oceanic plate consists of the oceanic crust and a part of the mantle beneath it.
What kind of plate boundary is found where the North American and Caribbean plates meet?
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 18.What kind of plate boundary is found where the North American and the Caribbean plates meet? | Transform boundary |
| 19.Which layer of the earth is broken into several large tectonic plates? | Lithosphere |
| 20.Mid-ocean ridges are places where tectonic plates are doing what? | Spreading apart |
Are the Himalayas a divergent plate boundary?
Divergent (Mid-Atlantic ridge, The Rift Valley), Convergent (The Andes, The Himalayas) and Transform (San Andreas fault, Dead Sea Transform). There are some sub-varieties but these are the main ones.
Which geographic features are associated with a divergent boundary?
Most divergent plate boundaries are underwater and form submarine mountain ranges called oceanic spreading ridges. While the process of forming these mountain ranges is volcanic, volcanoes and earthquakes along oceanic spreading ridges are not as violent as they are at convergent plate boundaries.