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 * __Convergent -__ Where two plates collide and one goes under the other.
 * Some examples would be 55 million years ago the Asian and Indian plates collided causing the Himalayas are formed
 * As the plates collide the mountains get higher
 * Japan was created from plates colliding
 * The bottom plate warms up and is under intense heat and pressure
 * The North American and Eurasian Plates are colliding causing Iceland
 * The Andes are the longest and one of the highest mountain ranges in the world caused by the Nazca and South American plates colliding
 * The Aleutian Islands are formed from the Pacific and North American plates colliding[[image:convergent1.jpg width="315" height="208" align="center"]]

 "Wildlife of the High Andes," Wildlife Explorer, International Masters Publishers Inc., 1999, printed in the U.S. 11/18/09 Knapp Gregory. "Andes Mountains" World Book Encyclopedia Vol. 1A Chicago. World Book Inc. 2000. p.453-454. "The Year of the Mountains," http://www.mountains2002.org.
 * __Divergent-__** Where two plates are moving apart from each other
 * An example is The Great Hawaiian crack that million of years from now will break apart causing some of Hawaii to fall into the ocean
 * Another is the Great Crack in Eastern Africa that millions of years from now will split apart causing a new ocean to form.[[image:arabianplate1.jpg width="235" height="165"]]
 * In Ethiopia there is a 35 million feet deep crack between the African and Arabian plates
 * The most active Divergent plates are in the ocean mostly know in the Mid Atlantic Ridge on the Atlantic and North American Plates
 * The Gakkel ridge is an Arctic mid-ocean ridge that is about 1,800 kilometers long between the North American and Eurasian plate
 * For the past 30 million years the Red Sea rift has been created by the Arabian plate splitting from the Nubian plate
 * __Transform__** **__Boundaries-__** When two plates grind agents each other.
 * The Pacific ocean ring is where 80-percent of the earthquakes occurs
 * The San Andreous plate in California is along the Pacific and North American plates.
 * New Zealand's Alpine fault in between the Pacific and Australian plates that in the six month period in 1995/1996 caused 195 earthquakes
 * Another good example is Pakistan's Chaman fault in between the Eurasian and Indian plates it is also involved in the Arabian and Eurasian plates

11/18/09Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth."  .

11/18/09 Leitner, B., D. Eberhart-Phillips, H. Anderson, and J. L. Nabelek (2001), A focused look at the Alpine fault, New Zealand: Seismicity, focal mechanisms, and stress observations, J. Geophys. Res.,  // 106 // (B2), 2193–2220. "Geology.com." // Geology //. 2009. Web. 18 Nov. 2009. . "USGS." // USGS //. 2 Oct. 2009. Web. 18 Nov. 2009. . "Plate Tectonics." // Science.nationalgeographic //. 2009. Web. 18 Nov. 2009. .