EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Convergent Plate BoundariesAt a convergent plate boundary, tectonic plates move toward one another and collide. Oftentimes, this collision forces the denser plate edge to subduct, or sink beneath the plate edge that is less dense. These subduction zones can create deep trenches.

Detailed explanation-2: -Convergent boundaries can form mountains, volcanos, or subduction zones that form large trenches. When two plates collide, the crusts can push together to form mountain ranges.

Detailed explanation-3: -At a convergent plate boundary, one plate dives or “subducts” beneath the other, resulting in a variety of earthquakes and a line of volcanoes on the overriding plate.

Detailed explanation-4: -At convergent plate boundaries, oceanic crust is often forced down into the mantle where it begins to melt. Magma rises into and through the other plate, solidifying into granite, the rock that makes up the continents. Thus, at convergent boundaries, continental crust is created and oceanic crust is destroyed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Convergent Plate Boundary Development Where tectonic plates converge, the one with thin oceanic crust subducts beneath the one capped by thick continental crust. A subduction zone consists of material scraped off the ocean floor near the coast (accretionary wedge) and a chain of volcanoes farther inland (volcanic arc).