Mod+2+-+Shelby+B

Plate Boundaries

//Transform: where plates move side ways in relation to each other

examples are//


 * the Sanandres fault zone in CA causes most earth quakes in the USA. when the north American plate slides agenst the pacific plate
 * the gulf of CA has transform. faults form the Cascadia Subduction zone
 * and the Affican and Eurasian plates causes earth quakes and a fault in the northern Atlantic ocean

//Convergent: where plates move into each other one goes under and one goes up//

//examples are//


 * the Andes mountain range
 * and the Himalayas

//Divergent:// //where plates move apart//


 * mid Atlantic ocean ridge
 * Iceland volcanoes grow all the time north American and Eurasian plats move apart [[image:arabianplate1.jpg]]