The challenge of natural hazards: Natural hazards - Plate Boundries Flashcards
1
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Different types of plate boundary
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Destructive, constructive and conservative
2
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Constructive margin
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Rising magma adds new material to plates that are diverging or moving apart.
3
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Destructive
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Two plates are converging or coming together and oceanic plate is subducted. It can be associated with violent earthquakes and explosive volcanoes.
4
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Conservative
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Two tectonic plates slide past each other.
5
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Destructive margin
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Two continental plates are converging or coming together, neither is subducted so the land above is forced and folded upwards. Earthquakes and fold mountains are created.
