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This document discusses different types of plate boundaries including divergent boundaries where plates move apart forming rift valleys, convergent boundaries where plates collide forming trenches, volcanoes or mountains, transform boundaries where plates slide past each other causing earthquakes, and hot spots where high temperature causes the land to move forming ridges.
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