Convergent boundary, plates crashing together, makes mountains and volcanoes, causes uplift, makes subduction zones (where one plate is pushed under another plate), makes trenches near subduction zones, Divergent boundary, plates pull apart, makes rift valleys, makes mid-ocean ridges under water, creates seafloor spreading, Transform boundaries, makes major earthquakes like in California, where two plates slide past each other, makes faults like the San Andeas fault, Hotspot, makes island volcanoes, where a plate moves over a plume of hot magma.

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