State the 3 different types of plate boundaries, and describe their movement.

  1. Convergent - Where two plates collide together, and the crust is destroyed.2) Divergent - Where two plates move away from each other, and new crust is formed.3) Transform - Where the two plates slide past each other. Crust is neither created nor destroyed.
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