Tectonic Plates

Question 1

In what type of plate boundary do plates push together?

Answer 1

Convergent (Oceanic meets continental) (destructive)

Question 2

In what type of plate boundary do plates collide?

Answer 2

Convergent (Continental meets continental) (collision)

Question 3

In what type of plate boundary do plates move away from each other?

Answer 3

Divergent (constructive)

Question 4

In what type of plate boundary do plates slide past each other?

Answer 4

Conservative

Question 5

What land forms or hazards do you find in a convergent (oceanic meets continental) plate boundary?

Answer 5

Tsunami can form. Very destructive meaning earthquake hazards

Question 6

What land forms or hazards do you find in a convergent (continental meets continental) plate boundary?

Answer 6

Destructive earthquakes. Risk of landslides

Question 7

What land forms or hazards do you find in a divergent plate boundary?

Answer 7

Small earthquakes ranging from magnitude 5.0 - 6.0 on the Richter Scale

Question 8

What land forms or hazards do you find in a conservative plate boundary?

Answer 8

No volcanoes due to no magma. Destructive earthquakes and small Earth tremors daily.

Question 9

What is the Richter Scale?

Answer 9

A numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph oscillations

Question 10

What does subduction mean?

Answer 10

The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth’s crust into the mantle beneath another plate