Plate Tectonics Passive Margin

The Structure of the Earth  A passive margin is where Oceanic Crust

the plates move side by side.  Is made of basalt.
 Occasional, when the plates  About 5km thick.
Crust
move earthquakes occur.  The rock is dense and
Mantle These can cause a large heavy.
amount of destruction.
Outer Core  No new material is made and
Continental Crust
no material is destroyed at
Inner Core  Is made of granite.
passive margins.
 An example of a passive  About 30km thick.
margin is the San Andreas  The rock is less
Fault in California. dense and is lighter.

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Mt St Helens

Eurasian Plate
KEY North
Volcano American
Plate
Plate Boundary
Pacific Plate
Mt Etna
Direction of plate movement
Hawaii
Oceanic Plate Montserrat
African Plate
Continental Plate
The ‘Ring
Mt Merapi
of Fire’ Nazca South
Plate American
Indo-Australian Plate
 A destructive margin is where Plate
the plates towards each other.
 The oceanic plate is Constructive Margin
SUBDUCTED under the
Destructive Margin
continental plate, where it melts.
This melts and the magma rises
to the surface and forms  A constructive margin is where the plates
volcanoes. move away from each other in opposite
 An example of a destructive directions.
margin is where the Indo-  Where the plates move apart magma flows
Australian plate meets the onto the surface as lava and forms new
Pacific plate. material on the crust.
 An example of a constructive margin is the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean.
 Occasional, when the plates To help a little bit you can cut out and stick these text boxes on to
move earthquakes occur. These your map. However, you need to make sure that you are putting
can cause a large amount of them in the correct place.
destruction.

 A destructive margin is where

the plates towards each other. A constructive margin is where
 A passive margin is where the 
plates move side by side. the plates move away from each
other in opposite directions.

 An example of a constructive
margin is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
in the Atlantic Ocean.
 The oceanic plate is
SUBDUCTED under the
continental plate, where it melts.
This melts and the magma rises
to the surface and forms
volcanoes.
 An example of a destructive
margin is where the Indo-
Australian plate meets the
Pacific plate.
 An example of a passive margin
is the San Andreas Fault in
California.
 Where the plates move apart
magma flows onto the surface as
lava and forms new material on
the crust.
 No new material is made and no
material is destroyed at passive
margins.