Where an oceanic plate and a ____ plate ____, a destructive plate boundary occurs. One example of this type of plate boundary is responsible for the formation of the Andes mountains. They were formed because the westerly moving South American plate is colliding with the ____ moving Nazca plate. The Nazca plate carries the ____ ocean and is therefore an ____ plate. Rocks in this oceanic plate are ____ dense than the rocks in the continental South American plate. As the plates collide, the more ____ oceanic plate is driven ____ inside the Earth; this is known as the ____ zone. Rocks in the subducted oceanic plate are destroyed by ____.  The magma formed may be ____ back up through the crust causing ____ eruptions and ____. Deep ocean ____ form where two ____ collide. The trench formed at the Nazca-Pacific plate boundary is ____ miles deep in places. The ____ dense continental plate ____ as it moves over the subducted oceanic plate. This is what caused the formation of the ____ ____.

Destructive plate boundaries

by
Print
Embed

Leaderboard

Visual style

Options

Switch template

Continue editing: ?