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Divergent Boundaries forms in the ocean, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle, and rises up to the surface, and pushes apart mountains and volcanoes. The process starts on the ocean floor, widening the giant basins. One mid-ocean ridge making the longest mountain range in the world. Giant troughs are plates that are pulled apart. An example of a giant trough is the Great Rift Valley, located in Africa. If these plates continue to pull apart, in millions of years Eastern Africa will split from the continent, and forma new land mass. A mid-ocean Ridge would mark the boundary between the places.

Convergent Boundaries are where plates crash together. Since these plates move slowly, collisions are very slow and last millions of years. An example of when convergent boundaries happen are when an oceanic plate crashes into a continental plate. Millions of people live in and visit beautiful ranges being built by plate coliisions. Some examples of this are the Rockies in North America, or the Himalayas in Central Asia. Big eruptions caused by Convergent Boundaries may kill a large number of people.

 Transform boundaries are places where plates slide past each other. An example of Transform Boundaries are the San Andreas Fault located in California. Transform Boundaries are when plate grids past each other on what we call strike slip faults.

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