Destructive plate boundaries

Question 1

What type of movement occurs at a destructive plate boundary?

Answer 1

Plates move towards each other.

Question 2

Which types of crust can be involved in a destructive plate boundary?

Answer 2

1 oceanic and 1 continental

Question 3

Which hazard(s) are created at a destructive plate boundary?

Answer 3

Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Question 4

What term is used to describe one plate being forced underneath?

Answer 4

Subduction

Question 5

What feature is created when one plate is forced underneath?

Answer 5

Subduction Zone - Deep Sea Trenches

Question 6

Give an example of a destructive plate boundary?

Answer 6

Where the Nazca plate is forced beneath the South American plate.

Question 7

What happens to the plate that has been forced downward into the mantle?

Answer 7

It melts and forms magma

Question 8

What is created as a result of friction between the plates (in the Benioff zone)?

Answer 8

Earthquakes

Question 9

What type of volcano is common at destructive plate boundaries?

Answer 9

Composite volcanoes

Question 10

What term do we give to the solid outer layer of the earth, made up of the crust and upper mantle?

Answer 10

Lithosphere