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 * Connor McIntyre** Mod 1

Divergent Divergent is when magma rises from the deep in the mantle and pushes the plates apart. Mountains and volcanoes rise from the seam. The process renews the ocean floor and expands the giant basins. The longest mountain range in the world is along the single mid-ocean ridge system. At the Great Rift Valley was formed when the plates are tugged apart. Millions of years from now eastern Africa will form a new continent after splitting off. The Mid Ocean Ridge was separated from the Nazca plate from the Pacific plate under the Pacific Ocean. Convergent Convergent is when a plate collides with another plate. India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly forming the Himalayas, the highest mountian range on Earth. As the mash-up continues, the mountians get higher. Mount Everest, the highest point on earth, may be a tiny bit taller tomorrow than it was today. Convergent boundries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, a land mass. Transform Transform boundries is when two plates grind against each other. The San Andres Fault in California is an example of transform boundries, where two plates grind along each other which are called stike-slip faults. These boundries don't produce any features like mountians or oceans, but when it stops it makes a large earthquakes, such as the 1906 one that devastated San Francisco.