Name
Date
Class
Key Concept Builder
LESSON 3
What are the Three Types of Plate Boundaries?
Key Concept What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Directions: Answer each question in the space provided.
1. What is a plate boundary?
2. Where does a divergent
plate boundary form?
3. Where does a convergent
plate boundary form?
Directions: Using the map on p. 234 in your science text, put a check mark in the space that correctly identifies the type of
boundary.
Plate Location
Divergent Plate
Convergent
Boundary
Plate Boundary
African Plate—South American Plate
North American Plate—Juan de Fuca Plate
African Plate—Antarctic Plate
Eurasian Plate—Philippine Plate
North American Plate—Pacific Plate
Arabian Plate—African Plate
Cocos Plate—Nazca Plate
Caribbean Plate—North American Plate
Indo-Australian Plate—Pacific Plate
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Plate Tectonics
Name
Date
Class
Key Concept Builder
LESSON 3
What are the Three Types of Plate Boundaries?
Key Concept What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Directions: List a fact or term next to each bullet to complete the chart.
Type of Boundary
Divergent plate
Transform plate
Convergent plate
(ocean-to-continent)
Convergent plate
(continent-to-continent)
Plate Tectonics
Where Boundary Is
Located &/or an Example
What Happens
•
Forms
•
Creates
•
Pulls
•
Forms
•
Forms
•
Causes
•
Forms
•
Oceanic plate
•
Creates
•
Forms
•
Forms
•
Both plates
•
Creates
•
•
•
•
•
•
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