Natural Hazards - Tectonic Movements

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Conservative Plate Boundary

when two plates move rub against each other sometimes creating a fault causing severe earthquakes

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Constructive Plate Boundary

when two plates move away from each other creating a separation where magma rises causing oceanic ridges

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Destructive Plate Boundary

when a oceanic plate and a continental plate collide and the oceanic plate will subduct under the continental plate causing volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

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Collisional Plate Boundary

when two continental plates collide with each other causing a folded mountain range to form

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Pangaea

a continent that used to exist that split up to create the continents as we do now