Plate Margins Flashcards

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What is the lithosphere?
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The rigid layer formed by the crust and upper mantle.

What is the lithosphere?
Give one reason why the incidence of natural hazards is increasing.
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Reasons include:

  • Climate change
  • Deforestation
  • Urbanisation
  • Population increase
Give one reason why the incidence of natural hazards is increasing.
Give an example of two tectonic plates that form a conservative plate margin.
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North American and Pacific plates, Cocos and Nazca plates, Arabian and Indo-Australian plates and the African and Eurasian plates.
Give an example of two tectonic plates that form a conservative plate margin.
Give an example of two tectonic plates that form a destructive plate margin
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Pacific and the Eurasian plate, Nazca and South American plate, Philippines and Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian and Pacific plate.
Give an example of two tectonic plates that form a destructive plate margin
Describe the physical processes that happen at a conservative plate margin.
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At a conservative margin, two plates move parallel to each other. They can be moving in the same or opposite directions. Pressure builds along the margin of tectonic plates. As friction is overcome the rock fractures releasing energy as an earthquake.
Describe the physical processes that happen at a conservative plate margin.




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