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Plate Margins – Unit 3.1 Plate tectonics
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifke1GsjNN0
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 …..
Where do volcanoes and earthquakes
happen?
Task: Read pages 90-91 in your textbook
Answer the following questions:
1) Q1 and Q2 from the book IN FULL SENTENCES!
2) Explain why fold mountains happen.
3) What is meant by the ring of fire?
And then . . .
Explain why earthquakes occur more frequently
than Volcanic eruptions. ( )
Describe the world wide distributions of Earthquakes and Volcanoes (5)
(Use named examples) You may need to use an atlas.
Earthquake
Volcano
How do we measure the Earth’s
movement?
Key words:
Seismic activity
Seismograph
Seismometer
Magnitude
Richter scale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBdvvXySr4
Case study Kobe – Japan 2011
http://www.coolgeography.co.uk/GCSE/AQA/Restless%20Earth/Earthquakes/Kobe.htm#Effects