Plate boundaries 🍽️

• What is a constructive plate boundary?

  A boundary where two tectonic plates move apart.
• Example of a constructive plate boundary?

  The Mid Atlantic Ridge.
• What are the volcanoes and earthquakes like at a constructive plate boundary?

  There's shield volcanoes and gentle earthquakes
• What is a conservative plate boundary?

  Two plates move side by side they get stuck and then there's a sudden jolt
• What is a destructive plate boundary?

  The more dense oceanic crust is subducted beneath the continental crust, pressure builds and when it releases there's an earthquake. Alternatively a magma chamber is formed and this forms a volcano.
• What are the earthquakes and volcanoes at a destructive plate boundary like?

  Dangerous
• What are collision boundaries?

  Two boundaries of the same type collide
• What forms at collision boundaries?

  Fold mountains and earthquakes
• How are earthquakes measured?

  Seismometers
• How are volcanoes measured?

  Satellite imaging for shape and thermal imaging for temperature and spectrometer for gas emissions
• How to mitigate a volcanoes effects?

  An exclusion zones and strong communication system
• How to mitigate an earthquakes effects?

  Steel frames, shatter proof glass, numbers painted on city roofs to speed up rescue attempts