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The Earth's crust is divided into moving puzzle pieces called plates, which have been shifting

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since the breaking of a supercontinent over 200 million years ago.

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This movement is known as the tectonic plate movement.

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These tectonic movements take place in three ways.

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The tectonic plate boundary, convergent plate boundary and transform plate boundary, divergent

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plate boundary.

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The divergent plate boundary is where tectonic plates move away from each other, leading

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to the formation of new oceanic crust and rift valleys.

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Convergent plate boundary, the convergent plate boundary is where tectonic plates collide

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or move towards each other, resulting in subduction zones, mountain ranges and volcanic activity.

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Transform plate boundary.

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The transform plate boundary is where tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally,

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causing earthquakes along fault lines such as the San Andreas fault in California.