Plate boundaries

Question 1

what are s-waves

Answer 1

slow
dangerous
move side to side

Question 2

what are p-waves

Answer 2

first to arrive
not dangerous
move up and down

Question 3

what is the focus

Answer 3

the place inside Earth’s crust where an earthquake originates

Question 4

what is the epicentre

Answer 4

the location on the surface of the Earth directly above where the earthquake starts.

Question 5

Destructive plate boundary

Answer 5

when a oceanic plate and a continental plate meet causing the denser plate to submerge. As the oceanic plate is submerged it melts creating magma which breaks to the surface to form deep sided compute volcanoes. Eruptions are often violent and destructive.

Question 6

Constructive plate boundary

Answer 6

two plates are moving apart. magma is firing its way to the surface . as it breaks through the overlaying crust it causes earthquakes. on reaching the surface it forms volcanoes

Question 7

Conservative plate boundary

Answer 7

two continental plates going past each other. They either move in opposite directions to each other or in the same direction but at different speeds . Earthquakes occur as the plats jerk past each other

Question 8

Destructive plates cause

Answer 8

Earthquakes and volcanoes

Question 9

Constructive plates cause

Answer 9

volcanoes

Question 10

Conservative plates cause

Answer 10

Earthquakes

Question 11

how are earthquakes formed at destructive and conservative plate boundaries

Answer 11

as the plates collide or move past each other they get stuck and pressure builds up .when the pressure gets too much it breaks and releases form the focus causing an earthquake