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How are divergent boundaries between tectonic plates different from convergent boundaries?

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Convergent is Colliding
Divergent is Dividing
Transforming is Sliding
(a little rhyme I learned so I thought I would share :3)
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Divergent boundaries is when new crust forms as the plates pull away from each other, and convergent boundaries is when crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another.
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