The Earths Structure🌍🌞🌝

Question 1

What are collision boundaries?

Answer 1

Are when 2 plates of the same type move towards each other and buckle up creating fold mountains

Question 2

What are destructive boundaries?

Answer 2

Are when the oceanic plate slides under the continental and the friction melts the rock making molten lava and when the magma reaches the top it forms a volcano

Question 3

What are constructive boundaries?

Answer 3

Are when two plates move apart from each other and the magma fro underneath rises and forms a volcano

Question 4

What are conservative boundaries?

Answer 4

Are when two plates slide past each other

Question 5

What is the difference between a composite volcano and a shield volcano?

Answer 5

A composite volcano produces thick viscous lava and has violent eruptions and a shield volcano produces runny lava and erupts for a long time

Question 6

What is the difference between a continental plate and an oceanic plate?

Answer 6

An oceanic plate is much more dense and is made of basalt and a continental plate is made from granite and is less dense

Question 7

What are the problems with living in fold mountain ranges?

Answer 7

• overcrowded with tourists
• potential avalanches destroy homes
• steep ground problem for farmers

Question 8

How do people use fold mountain areas?

Answer 8

• skiing and leisure
• farming
• mining and logging

Question 9

How are volcanoes monitored?

Answer 9

Are monitored by volcanologists using equipment such as tilt meters and seismometers to measure the expansion of the lava and if if likely to erupt!!

Question 10

What are the layers of the earth?

Answer 10

Inner core, outer core, mantle and crust