Plate Tectonics KQ1 - Part 1 & 2

What type of hazards are hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons?

• Tectonic hazards

• Climate-related hazards

What type of hazards are earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions?

• Tectonic hazards

• Climate-related hazards

Name layer "X"

• Core

• Mantle

• Crust

What is the process of heating, rising, cooling and sinking.

• Convection currents

• Subduction currents

• Hot-cold cycle

At X, the plates are __________

• Moving away from each other

• Moving towards each other

• Moving past each other

At Y, the plates are __________

• Moving away from each other

• Moving towards each other

• Moving past each other

The area where the denser oceanic plate goes beneath the less dense continental plate is call the ___________________.

• Colliding zone

• Sinking zone

• Subduction zone

• Convection currents zone

At A, the plates are moving _________ from each other.

• away

• towards

• past

Identify the plate movement between the Nazca and South American Plate.

• moving away from each other

• moving towards each other

• moving past each other

This is known as _________ plate boundary.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform