What geographic features are associated with each type of plate boundary?
• Hypothesize why trenches are associated with volcanoes. Hint: think about what happens to the lost sea floor. • Keeping in mind the differences in densities, predict the result of an oceanic plate meeting a continental plate. EXTEND Journal Write: • Hypothesize which type of plate boundary may yield the largest magnitude event. Record your hypothesis in your journal • To determine the latitude and longitude of plate boundaries visit the following web site • http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/quake/gldfs.cr.usgs.gov/name%3Dquake/zoom%3D2.800 • Choose a type of plate boundary: convergent, divergent, transform. • Click on an area of the world that has the plate boundary. • Write down the latitude and longitude of each of these geographic areas as listed on your screen • Using the Event Search Form, search the data base for the same period of time (ten, fifteen, twenty years as needed for a large date set) for each of the plate boundary geographic locations. NOTE: Add 5 ° to either side of
