Tectonic Hazards - Plate Tectonics

Constructive Margins:
  • Plates move apart
  • Magma cools and goes solid, crack in the Earth makes magma.
  • Called magma in earth and lava on earth.
  • Above process forms Iceland
Destructive Margins:
  • A trench is made
  • Oceanic plate subducts under the continental plate because it is less dense
  • Heavy plates under the lighter plate
  • Fiction near the Benioff zone means it melts
  • Magma rises and forms a composite cone volcano
  • Molton pushes upwards causing magma to turn solid with it reaches the surface
Collison Zones:
  • Land hitting lands which leads to fold mountains
  • No subduction zone, they fold over instead
  • On the boundaries of plate tectonics.