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__**Divergent Boundaries**__ -This is when Magma rises and pushes the plates apart.
 * 1) The magma pushes the plate apart and splits the plate into 3 parts.
 * 2) As the magma pushes the plate apart the middle section is engulfed by magma.
 * 3) This is called a rift.
 * 4) When this happens on land a gap about 30-50 Kilometers appears.
 * 5) There is one of these in East Africa rift in Kenya and Ethiopia.
 * 6) When this happens underwater the gap is about 1 kilometer or less.
 * 7) This usually runs on the top of a mid-ocean ridge.
 * 8) the process is very slow.
 * __Convergent boundaries-__ A plate collides with or dives underneath an other plate.[[image:Convergentplateboundary1.jpg width="204" height="161" align="right"]] **
 * 1) The process is very slow, it could take millions of years.
 * 2) It moves only a few centimeters a year.
 * 3) This is how mountains occurs.
 * 4) This process also makes trenches.
 * 5) it causes earthquakes.
 * 6) There one of these in the West coast of South America.
 * 7) Also the Nazica Plate is crashing into the South America.
 * 8) This has formed the Andes in South America, the Rockies in North America, and the Alps in Europe.
 * 9) These are considered dangerous places.

__**Transform boundaries**__- 2 plates grind against each other.
 * 1) This process slides across another plate which tears or crunches the other plate.
 * 2) This process lacks spectacular features.
 * 3) This creates a linear valley.
 * 4) The process also grounds up rock.
 * 5) It creates steam beds to split into half and in different directions.
 * 6) An example of this is the San Andrea's Fault.
 * 7) Another example is that someday San Francisco could end up next to Los Angeles.
 * 8) That part of California moves 6 centimeters a year and 10 million years from now it could happen.
 * 9) This is also why California has so many earthquakes.

__**Citatons**__

"Plate Tectonics." //Earth Floor//. Wheeling Jesuit University, 1997. Web. 11 Nov. 2009. [].

Pugliano, Jessica. "Mrs.P's Website." Jessica Pugliano, Web. 11 Nov. 2009. [].