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  • Created by: siantopp
  • Created on: 08-12-13 15:11

1. What are hotspots?

  • Where fold mountains occur
  • Where Oceanic crust is created and destroyed
  • Areas of rising plumes of magma into the asthenosphere creating trails of volancoes
  • Where continental crust is folded, crushed and compressed
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2. What are the different types of volcanoes?

  • Lava and Smoke
  • Composite and Strato
  • Sheild and Strato
  • Sheild and Steep

3. What are high temperatures in the Earths core caused by?

  • Radioactive decay causing convection currents
  • Iron
  • Granite
  • The crust and the heat of the cores

4. Basic, what happens at destructive and constructive plate boundaries?

  • They are the same, plates push past each other creating volcanoes
  • New crust is made at constructive and old crust is destroyed at destructive
  • New crust is made at destructive and old crust is destroyed at constructive
  • They create faults

5. What are the three main plate boundary types?

  • Hotspots, Land and Water
  • Subductive, Conservative and Oceanic
  • Constructive, Conservative and Destructive
  • Destructive, Faults and Earthquakes
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