2.4 Conservative plate margins

Question 1

How do conservative plate margins move

Answer 1

sliding parallel past each other

Question 2

example of conservative plate margins

Answer 2

pacific and north american

Question 3

describe conservative plate margin movement

Answer 3

• pressure builds at the margin of the tectonic plates as they are pulled along behind a plate being subducted elsewhere
• As friction is overcome, the rock fractures in an earthquake

Question 4

what do conservative plate margins create

Answer 4

earthquakes