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Destructive/Convergent
Mind map: Destructive/convergent plate boundary
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Destructive/Convergent
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Must be 1 oceanic & 1 Continental
Oceanic plates are subducted by continental because heavier.
- makes a trench
- Oceanic breakes under pressure
- Gets hotter from friction & heat from core
- Melts into magma and rises to form a volcano
- Gets hotter from friction & heat from core
- Places on the ground where the plates collide is called the epicentre
Plates move into each other
Mount Etna & Montserrat
Land is very productive for farming
- BUT land is very dangerous!
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- Scholarship geography (tectonics) Mind Map on Destructive/Convergent, created by joshuaberman12 on 02/04/2014.
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