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Divergent Plates- A divergent plates when two tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
 * the East Pacific Ridge-is part of the pacific ocean floor it spreads from Antartica to the Gulf of California it is formed because the pacific plate is spreading from the Australian plate
 * Giant Rift Valley- is in Africa where the african plate is spreading from the Arabian plate.
 * Mid Atlantic Ridge-it spreads under water for 207 miles from the north pole to a longitude just south of Africa. it is 6200 miles long

Convergent-A convergent plate is when two plates are either running into each other are going under one another. Transform- a transform boundry is formed when two plates are sliding past each other.
 * Mariana Trench/Mariana Islands- it is the deepest trench in the world. it is in the western Pacific ocean it stretches over 1580 miles.
 * Japan- was formed when the Phillipine plate is subducting under the Eurasian and magma rose and formed the islands.
 * Mt Everest- is the tallest mountain in the world it reaches a height of 29,035. it formed when the Indian plate collided with the Eurasian Plate.
 * San Andreas- This fault seperates California from the rest of the United States. it is formed because the Juan de Fuca Plate is sliding past the North American Plate.
 * North Anatolian fault- this plate is located in northern turkey and runs into the Aegean sea. It is caused by the movement of the Eurasian plate and the Anatolian plate.
 * Alpine Fault- runs the entire lenght of New Zealands South Island. it is between the Pacific plate and the Indo-Australian plate.

Spaulding, Nancy E. //Earth Science//. Evanstom, Il: McDougal Littel, Print

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