Convergent: oceanic-continental (The Andes)

0 of 11 labels placed

A	Volcanically active (explosive) Andean mounatin peak

B	Nazca Plate

C	Benioff zone a region of earthquakes that get progressively deeper in an easterly direction

D	Accretionary wedge: sediments thrust onto the continental lithosphere as subduction continues

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Direction of plate movement

E	Remnant of subducted slab is recycled back into the mantle at depth

F	Asthenosphere

G	South American Plate

H	Abyssal plain

I	Lithosphere

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