Convergent Tectonic Boundaries
This is an example of how convergent boundaries work. There are three specific types of plate bounderies that can cause earthquakes and create many rocky landscapes. One of these boundaries is called a convergent boundary. Convergent boundaries are types of tectonics plates that crash into each other, like when a football player tackles the opposing team's player. These type of boundaries can cause mountains, like how Asia and India collided about 55 million years ago to form the Himalayas. When ocean plates dive under a landmass, this creates subduction, which can also cause convergent tectonic boundaries. This often creates volcanoes and even more mountains. Convergent boundaries can soon cause trenches like the Mariana Trench and even create underwater volcanoes that eventually become little island arcs. If you don't know what island arcs look like, think about the shape of Japan.
Transform Tectonic Boundaries
When two plates grate past each other in what many call "a strike-slip fault," this created a transform boundary. This type of boundary can cause faults, like the San Andreas Fault in California. Transform boundaries aren't very spectacular because they don't create mountains or oceans. However, the transform boundary is the boundary that can cause earthquakes, especially when it comes to a sudden halt.
Divergent Tectonic Boundaries
Magma from the center of the Earth's mantle can rise and separate two or more plates by pushing, a process that happens in the ocean's divergent boundaries. This can refresh the ocean and enlarge giant basins. These plates can create volcanoes and mountains. This can also create giant troughs on land, which can form where plates tug apart.