Types Of Plate Margins Flashcards
1
Q
What happens at conservative plate margins?
A
Plates slide past each other
2
Q
What hazards occur at conservative plate margins?
A
Earthquakes
3
Q
What happens at constructive plate margins?
A
Plates move apart
4
Q
What are formed at constructive plate margins?
A
Volcanoes as magma wells up to fill the gaps
5
Q
Examples of constructive plate margins?
A
Mid Atlantic ridge
Mainly under oceans
6
Q
What happens at a destructive plate margin?
A
The plates converge either:
- oceanic continental
- oceanic oceanic
- continental continental
