Question

plate boundaries can be divided into divergent boundary convergent boundary transform faults explain the continent undergoes extension for divergent boundary

Answer 1

The motion of plates generally leads to various geological and geophysical activities on lands and oceans in Earth. The plate boundaries can be divided into divergent, convergent and transform faults. Convergent boundary is related to the compression of plates which results in the building of mountains due to subduction of one plate under another.

In nature, the collision of continental plates to oceanic plates occur and there is also a collision of continental plates together. During divergence of plates, new continents are formed and ocean floors are formed which leads to creation of new oceans and it also results in large scale volcanic activity. During divergent plate motion the new smaller plates move apart, which in case of continental rifts leads to crustal thinning and faulting when crust undergoes extension. The movement of these plates in divergence is responsible for the formation of new continents and hence leads to continent extension. Similarly divergent movement of oceanic plates leads to oceanic crustal thinning and formation of new oceans.