What boundary describes plates moving toward each other?

• A. Divergent Plate Boundaries
• B. Transform Plate Boundaries
• C. Convergent Plate Boundaries
• D. Subduction

Answer: (C)

Convergent plate boundaries describe boundaries where two tectonic plates move toward one another, colliding at their edges. This toward-motion leads to interactions such as continental collision forming mountain ranges, or one plate being forced beneath another when an oceanic plate meets a continental or another oceanic plate. The term convergent reflects that incoming motion meeting at a boundary. In the other options, divergent boundaries are where plates move apart, and transform boundaries involve plates sliding past each other horizontally. Subduction is the process that can occur at a convergent boundary where one plate sinks beneath another, but it isn’t the boundary type itself.