Question

Which type of stress is associated with each type of tectonic plate boundary?

Answer 1

Handily, these three senses of stress also correlate with the three types of plate boundaries. Compressive stress happens at convergent plate boundaries where two plates move toward each other. Tensional stress happens at divergent plate boundaries where two plates are moving away from each other.

Answer 2

Convergent-compressive
Divergent-tensional
Transform-shear