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  1. Most seismic activity occurs at three types of plate boundaries—divergent, convergent, and transform. As the plates move past each other, they sometimes get caught and pressure builds up. When the plates finally give and slip due to the increased pressure, energy is released as seismic waves, causing the ground to shake. This is an earthquake.

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    This margin can be found on land as well as in the centre of oceans. The processes occurring here are that the plates are being pulled apart in a pattern of divergence. Most commonly found in oceans, the plate type is oceanic on both sides and upon moving apart a gap is left, which is immediately filled with magma that rises up from the mantle. Due...

    This margin is associated with converging plates, which are can involve two oceanic plates colliding, one continental and one oceanic, or two continental plates in collision. Where two oceanic plates converge a volcanic island arc will result parallel to the plate margin - examples are Japan, and the Aleutian Islands; both curved lines of volcanoes...

    This margin is associated with plates that slide alongside each other. They can either slide in the same direction but at different speeds or in opposite directions. There are no volcanoes found at this margin due to the lack of material being destroyed. As they move past each other, friction builds up and energy is released as an earthquake. They ...

  2. Feb 11, 2020 · Sometimes an entire ocean closes as tectonic plates converge, causing blocks of thick continental crust to collide. A collisional mountain range forms as the crust is compressed, crumpled, and thickened even more. The effect is like a swimmer putting a beach ball under his or her belly—the swimmer will rise up considerably out of the water.

  3. Apr 20, 2018 · Convergent boundaries between continental plates are a bit different than oceanic/oceanic and oceanic/continental mashups. Continental lithosphere is too buoyant to subduct deeply, so rather than a subduction zone and trench these boundaries encompass a thick mess of folded, piled-up crust.

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  4. CONVERGE definition: 1. If lines, roads, or paths converge, they move towards the same point where they join or meet…. Learn more.

  5. A series is convergent (or converges) if and only if the sequence of its partial sums tends to a limit; that means that, when adding one after the other in the order given by the indices, one gets partial sums that become closer and closer to a given number.

  6. Convergence is a concept used throughout calculus in the context of limits, sequences, and series. A convergent sequence is one in which the sequence approaches a finite, specific value. Consider the sequence . We can determine whether the sequence converges using limits. A sequence converges if its n th term, a n, is a real number L such that:

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