Tectonic plates

Question 1

What is the Earth’s surface separated into?

Answer 1

Tectonic plates

Question 2

What is around the core?

Answer 2

Mantle

Question 3

Does the mantle move fast or slow?

Answer 3

Very slow

Question 4

What is the mantle made out of?

Answer 4

Semi-molten rock

Question 5

What is the outer layer called?

Answer 5

The crust

Question 6

Is the crust thick or thin?

Answer 6

Thin

Question 7

What are the two types of crust?

Answer 7

Continental and oceanic

Question 8

What are the two features of continental crust?

Answer 8

Thicker, less dense

Question 9

What are the two features of oceanic crust?

Answer 9

Thinner, more dense

Question 10

Why are the plates moving?

Answer 10

The rock in the mantle underneath the plates is moving

Question 11

What are the place the plates meet called?

Answer 11

Boundaries or plate margins

Question 12

What are the three types of plate margins?

Answer 12

Destructive, constructive and conservative

Question 13

What are the two plates doing in a destructive margin?

Answer 13

Oceanic and continental are moving towards each other

Question 14

What happens in a destructive plate margin?

Answer 14

The oceanic plate is more dense so it is forced down into the mantle and destroyed

Question 15

What does the destructive margins create?

Answer 15

Volcanoes and ocean trenches

Question 16

What does the plates in a constructive margin do?

Answer 16

Both plates are moving away from each other and magma rises to fill the gap

Question 17

What does a constructive margin create?

Answer 17

Because the magma cools down when it fills the gap it creates a new crust

Question 18

What do the plates in a conservative margin do?

Answer 18

The two plates are moving sideways past each other or moving in the same direction but at different speeds

Question 19

What does the conservative margin create?

Answer 19

Nothing. Crust isn’t created or destroyed