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Plate Margins – Unit 3.1 Plate tectonics
Source: Remember: Convergent = Destructive – destroying land Divergent = Constructive – creating land Name of plate margin What TWO plate types are involved? Oceanic? Continental? What is the result? An example is …..
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Where do volcanoes and earthquakes happen?
Task: Read pages in your textbook Answer the following questions: Q1 and Q2 from the book IN FULL SENTENCES! Explain why fold mountains happen. What is meant by the ring of fire? And then . . . Explain why earthquakes occur more frequently than Volcanic eruptions. ( )
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Describe the world wide distributions of Earthquakes and Volcanoes (5) (Use named examples) You may need to use an atlas Earthquake Volcano
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How do we measure the Earth’s movement?
Key words: Seismic activity Seismograph Seismometer Magnitude Richter scale
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Case study Kobe – Japan 2011
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