ve their own plate or plates, with the exception of Europe and Asia, which share the massive Eurasian Plate. Along the edges of these plates there is a large occurrence of geologic activity. "Earthquakes and volcanoes, evidence of unrest in the Earth, help locate the edges of plates." This unrest is caused by movement of the plates, which can be broken down into three general types. A divergent plate boundary is where the plates are pulling and moving away from one another. An example of this is the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Conversely, the Western banks of South America show evidence of convergent plate boundary, where the plates are pushing and moving towards one another, in this case the N
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