Question

Describe the difference plate boundaries?

Answer 1

There are four types of plate boundaries:  

Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other.  

Convergent boundaries -- where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another.  

Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.  

Plate boundary zones -- broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined and the effects of plate interaction are unclear.