Question

read the passage and look at the picture.
the queen charlotte fault marks a boundary between the pacific plate and the north american plate. the two plates slide past each other along this fault, which lies off the west coast of british columbia, canada. a magnitude 8.1 earthquake occurred along this fault in 1949, forming a crack in earths crust over 500 kilometers long.
complete the sentence.
the queen charlotte fault formed at a ______ boundary.
convergent divergent transform

Explanation:

Plate boundaries where two plates slide past each other horizontally are defined as transform boundaries. The passage states the Pacific Plate and North American Plate slide past each other along the Queen Charlotte Fault, which matches the definition of a transform boundary. Convergent boundaries involve plates colliding, and divergent boundaries involve plates moving apart, neither of which is described here.

Answer:

transform