Tectonic Plate Boundaries Flashcards

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Constructive Plate Boundary

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Tectonic plates drift apart
Magma rises, cools, spreads creating new crust
Mostly at bottom of sea
Volcanos creatsd, weaker earthquakes

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Destructive plate boundary

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Tectonic plates carried towards each other
Oceanic plate subducts under continental plate due to being more dense
Rocks grinding and getting stuck creates energy and when plates jolt and are released , huge amounts of energy get released causing earthquakes,
Oceanic plate causes co2 and other gasses to rise under the continental plate building up pressure leading on to a volcano

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Collision Boundary

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Both plates continental, similar density’s
Drift towards each other and crash, crumbling upwards creating fold mountains, Earthquakes caused

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Conservative Boundary

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Crustal plates slide past each other, grinding, getting caught, building up energy, when they release from each other and jolt, huge amounts of energy released, causing earthquake

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