PLATE BOUNDARIES GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
TYPE OF
BOUNDARY
SKETCH
(show arrows and label type of
crust)
DIRECTION OF
MOVEMENT
(explain in words)
Transform-Fault
Convergent
(Collision)
Continent -Continent
Ocean-Continent
Convergent
(Subduction)
Ocean- Ocean
Continental crust
oceanic crust
the name of 1-2 of
the landforms that
forms at this
boundary *see
example below*)
(Description/Features of Plate
Boundaries) **What forms there,
plate density, how the plates move**
Divergent
Convergent
(Subduction)
REAL-WORLD
EXAMPLES (Give
ASSOCIATED LANDFORMS
When 2 plates collide
the colder more dense
oceanic plate sinks
beneath (subduction)
the continental plate.

Plates move in a jerking
motion (not smooth)

Earthquakes

Great Rift Valley

Mid-Atlantic Ridge