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Explore How many different ways canyou crash your car? Turn on the layer "Relative Motion at Plate Boundaries". Note that you will not see anything until you perform the next step With the "Details" pane visible, click the "Contents" button. Press the button "Bookmarks 5. How are the plates moving for the California bookmark? . Turn on the layer "Global Quakes of Large Magnitude 5.8 or Greater". . Select each bookmark and describe the plate movement at the bookmark. 6. How are the plates moving for the South America bookmark? 7. How are the plates moving for the Mid-Atlantic bookmark?
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6. At South America bookmark the oceanic plate is subducting beneath the South American Plate and this is an example of destructive plate tectonics/collisional pate tectonics. In this case two plates are moving towards each other.
7. At mid atlantic ridge the plates are moving apart from each other and new oceanic crust is being created. This is constructive plate boudary.
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