2.3 Destructive plate margins

Question 1

How do destructive plate margins move

Answer 1

converging towards each other

Question 2

Give example of a destructive plate margin

Answer 2

Pacific and Philippine plates

Question 3

Explain destructive plate margins process

Answer 3

-When tectonic plates converge, pressure builds between them. The rock eventually fractures, causing earthquakes
- When oceanic and continental plates collide, the denser oceanic plate is subducted under the continental plate into mantle where it melts
-Hot magma can rise through the lithosphere and erupt as lava through volcanoes

Question 4

What do destructive plate margins create

Answer 4

Earthquakes (violent)
Composite volcanoes

Question 5

Give a country that is a destructive plate margin

Answer 5

Japan, 118 active volcanoes