Unit 1: Earthquakes and volcanoes - Describing and explaining the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes

The Earth structure

Source: http://viableopposition.blogspot.com.br/2011/03/explaining-japans-earthquake.html

The global pattern of plates

Source: http://www.livescience.com/38819-plate-tectonics-patterns.html

Plate movement

Source: http://www.bucknell.edu/x17758.xml

Plate boundaries

*Constructive/divergent *Destructive/convergent *Conservative/transform

Source: http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/tectonic_plates/volcanoes_earthquakes.gif

Effects of plate movement

	Earthquakes	Volcanoes	What they do
Constructive plate boundary			Make new crust
Destructive plate boundary			Make mountains
Conservative plate boundary			Do not make or destroy land

Source: http://www.frankswebspace.org.uk/ScienceAndMaths/physics/physicsGCSE/tectPlateBound.htm