Landforms
- Created by: HLeiper
- Created on: 31-03-14 11:07
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- Landforms
- Fold Mountains
- Sedimentary rocks build up and are folded up and forced upwards
- Found at destructive plate boundaries and where there used to be destructive plate boundaries
- Lots of high mountains, very rocky, steep slopes.
- Volcanoes
- At destructive plate boundaries the oceanic plate goes under the continental plate
- Oceanic Plate melts, pool of magma is formed, magma rises through the vents, magma erupts on the surface
- Constructive Plate boundaries - magma rises up into the gap
- Composite Volcanoes
- Made up of ash and lava that has erupted, cooled and hardened into layers
- Lava is thick and flows slowly. Steep sided volcano
- Made up of ash and lava that has erupted, cooled and hardened into layers
- Shield Volcano
- Made up of only lava
- Lava is runny, flows quickly over a wide area. Low, Flat Volcano
- Made up of only lava
- At destructive plate boundaries the oceanic plate goes under the continental plate
- Ocean Trenches
- Deep sections of the ocean, usually where an oceanic plate in sinking below a continental plate
- Fold Mountains
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