Head-On Collision
Part A: Converging Continental Plate and Oceanic Plate
Objectives:
Explain the processes that occur along convergent boundaries.
• Determine the consequences of colliding plates.
Procedure:
1. Study Figure 10 showing a cross-sectional diagram of plates that are converging, and answer the questions that follow.
Trench
Mountain
Building
Ocean
Plate B
Plate A
Earthquakes
Figure 10. Cross-sectional diagram of converging continental and oceanic plates
Q15. What type of plate is Plate A? What about Plate B? Why do you
say so?