Tectonic Hazards

Question 1

What are the four different types of plate boundaries?

Answer 1

Conservative
Collision
Destructive (convergent)
Constructive( divergent)

Question 2

What happens at a constructive plate boundary?

Answer 2

At the constructive boundary, the plates are moving apart. Both volcanic eruptions and earthquakes can occur at this type of plate boundary.

Question 3

What is an example of a constructive plate boundary.

Answer 3

The Mid-Atlantic ridge

Question 4

What happens at a destructive plate boundary?

Answer 4

At a destructive plate boundary the plates are moving together by the denser, heavier oceanic plate moving downwards under a lighter less dense continental plate.

Question 5

What hazards occur at destructive plate boundaries?

Answer 5

Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

Question 6

What is an example of a destructive plate boundary?

Answer 6

The boundary between the Nazca plate and the South American plate.