Restless Earth - created from Mind Map

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Moving tectonic plates

Plate boundaries

Volcanoes & Earthquakes

Convection currents

Core heats magma

Hot magma rises

At the surface, hot magma cools

Magma flows back down to core

Destructive

Constructive

Conservative

South American Plate

Two plates collide

One plate flows beneath another

Lots of earthquakes & volcanoes

Subduction

Eurasian & North American Plates

Raising convection currents pull crust apart

Volcanic ridge

Mid- Atlantic Ridge

San Andreas Fault

Two plate slide past each other

Earthquakes

Shield Volcanoes

Composite Volcanoes

Constructive Plate Boundaries

Destructive Plate Boundaries