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The Earth's crust is made up of enormous sections called plates. Name and explain the three different types of boundaries along the Earth's plates.

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Answer: see below

Explanation: 1. Convergent boundaries- where two plates are colliding subduction zones occur when one or both of the tectonic plates are composed of oceanic crust The denser play is abducted underneath the less dense plate the plate being forced under is eventually melted and destroyed

2. Divergent boundaries-

Where two plates are moving apart the space created can also fill with new crustal material source for molten magma that forms below diversions boundaries conform with incontinence but will eventually open up and become ocean basins

3. Transform boundaries- our plates slide past each other the relative motion of the plates is horizontal they can occur underwater or on land and cross is neither destroyed nor created

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