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TECTONIC PLATES
Name _________________________________________________________
Convergent Plate Boundaries
Trench
Overriding Plate
Subducting Plate
1 ) Peru-Chile Trench
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2 ) Aleutian Trench
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☼
3 ) Tonga Trench
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☼
4 ) Mariana Trench
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☼
Divergent Plate Boundaries
Name the two diverging plates.
Ridge
5 ) Mid-Atlantic Ridge (north of equator)
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☼
6 ) Mid-Atlantic Ridge (south of equator)
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☼
7 ) East Pacific Ridge
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☼
8 ) Southeast Indian Ridge
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☼
9 ) Southwest Indian Ridge
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☼
☼
☼
10 ) Mid-Indian Ridge
Transform Plate Boundary
Name the two sliding plates.
☼
11 ) San Andreas Fault
☼
Hot Spots
Check one
Name
At a Plate Boundary
Far from a Plate Boundary
Latitude
Longitude
Type of Plate Boundary
21 )
50°S
30°E
22 )
40°N
20°W
23 )
0
30°E
24 )
70°N
140°E
25 )
45°N
150°E
12 ) Hawaii
13 ) Galapagos
14 ) Canary Islands
15 ) Iceland
16 ) St. Helena
17 ) Bouvet
18 ) Easter Island
19 ) Tasman
20 ) Yellowstone
Plate Boundaries by Coordinates
☼ = Write the relative direction of motion of the plate (N, E, SW, NW, etc.)
by Charles Burrows
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Fiji Plate
Divergent plate boundary
(usually broken by transform
faults along mid-ocean ridges)
Tasman
Hot Spot
st
Ea
Easter Island
Hot Spot
Pacific
Plate
Convergent plate boundary
(subduction zone)
subducting
plate
overriding
plate
Antarctic
Plate
Nazca
Plate
r
Sandwich
Plate
Mantle
hot spot
Bouvet
Hot Spot
St. Helena
Hot Spot
African
Plate
Eurasian
Plate
Iceland
Hot Spot
Complex or uncertain
plate boundary
Scotia
Plate
Canary
Islands
Hot Spot
Mid
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South
American
Plate
an
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Car late
P
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Galapagos
Hot Spot
Yellowstone
Hot Spot
Cocos
Plate
San Andreas
Fault
Juan de
Fuca Plate
Hawaii
Hot Spot
h
Aleutian Trenc
Indian-Australian
Plate
M
Philippine
Plate
Transform plate boundary
(transform fault)
NOTE: Not all mantle hot spots, plates, and
boundaries are shown.
Relative motion at
plate boundary
Antarctic
Plate
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Eurasian
Plate
To n g a
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North American
Plate
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Tectonic Plates
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