Summary of the lesson of Plate Boundaries, everything you need to know

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Plate Boundaries
Created May 9, 2021 1230 AM

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Volcanoes and earthquakes are distributed along the egdes of the plate
boundaries.

Three major belts:
 Circum-Pacific belt

 Mid-Atlantic Belt

 Mid-Continental Belt


Volcanic Belts
region where high levels of volcanic activity occur.

 Mid-Atlantic Ridge

part of the mid-atlantic belt, on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean

iceland to antartica

along the divergent plate boundaries

 Pacific Ring of Fire

part of the circum-pacific belt

has 75% of the world's volcanoes

along transform and convergent plate boundaries

 Volcanoes of the Alps, Mediterranean Sea Stromboli, Vesuvius, Etna),
Aegean Sea; Mt. Arat Turkey), Elburz, Hindukush.

part of the Mid-Continental Belt


Plate Boundaries 1

, long the convergent plate boundaries

Mountain Belt
a region with great Mountain Ranges.




How are volcanoes and earthquakes produced?
plates interact along their boundaries

these interaction produce geographical features and activities on Earth, such
as volcanoes and earthquakes.

Tectonic plates
15 to 20 moving tectonic plates

the plates move(very slowly) with respect to each other

the Philippine Sea Plate (east of the Philippines) is one of the smaller ones




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