Plate margins

Question 1

What are the 3 types of plate margins?

Answer 1

destructive margins
conservative margins
constructive margins

Question 2

What is a destructive plate margin?

Answer 2

Destructive margins are where two plates are moving towards each other.

Question 3

Destructive plate margin

What happens when an oceanic plate meets a continental plate?

Answer 3

The oceanic plate is denser and its forced down into the mantle and destroyed.

Question 4

what can occur at destructive plate margins?

Answer 4

Volcanoes and ocean trenches

Question 5

what is a constructive plate margin?

Answer 5

constructive plate margins are where two plates are moved away from each other.

Question 6

what does magma do at constructive plate margins?

Answer 6

magma rises from the molten rock and fills the gap created by the conservative margins and cools down creating new crust.

Question 7

what are conservative plate margins?

Answer 7

conservative margins are where two plates are moving sideways past each other, or are moving in the same direction but at different speeds.