CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES

OVERVIEW

• Creates a subduction zone
• Oceanic plates are colliding
• Less dense plate goes on top
• Denser plate sinks below
• Some of the plate melts

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COMMON LANDFORMS

• Volcanoes
• Island arcs
• A trench

Aleutian Islands

MINI QUIZ!

-(true or false) an island chain is a common landform created by this type of boundary.

-Is this presentation on convergent or divergent boundaries?

Does the denser or less dense plate sink to the bottom?

AN EXAMPLE OF AN ISLAND CHAIN ARC IS

• Florida
• Every Island on Jupiter
• The Banana Island Chain
• The Aleutian Islands

-Why are volcanoes a common land formation along oceanic to oceanic convergent plates?

-(true or false) none of the plate melts, no matter how deep it submerges into the earth.