Plate Tectonics

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Plate Tectonics

• Notes

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Mountains Result from Collisions

• Active and Passive Continental Margins
• Active occur along plate boundaries.
• Unstable earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains.
• Passive do not occur along plate boundaries.
• Stable areas of shallow water where sediment
  builds up.
• Collisions between Oceans and Continents
• EX. Andes Mountains.

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Mountains Result from Collisions

• Collisions between Two Continents.
• EX. Himalaya Mountains.
• Questions
• What kinds of earth processes occur at active
  continental Margins?
• Name a mountain range that was formed by
  Ocean-Continent collisions.
• Name a mountain range caused by collision between
  continents.