Divergent Boundaries Essay

Assessment task
Knowing and understanding
Activity 1
1.1

1.2 The most volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur around plate boundaries.

Activity 2
2.1.1 Divergent boundary

2.1.2 Convergent boundary

2.1.3 Transform boundary

2.2.2
Divergent boundary
Divergent boundaries cause oceanic ridges, valleys and lakes. Divergent boundaries can cause volcanic eruptions.
Location: Basalt in (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, East-African Rift).
Convergent boundary
Leads to trenches valleys or coastal and intra-continental mountain ranges being formed convergent boundaries often lead to the forming of volcanoes and can tsunamis, earthquakes, oceanic trenches and mountains.

Formation of continental volcanic arcs (Andes, Cascades)
Formation of
It affected more than 99,600 families all over the Philippines, damaging more than 155,500 houses in 10 regions.

• Bohol earthquake, October 2013
In the early morning hours of October 15, 2013 the island province of Bohol, located in Central Visayas in the Philippines, was disrupted by the deadliest earthquake in the Philippines in 23 years. The earthquake lasted 34 seconds and had a magnitude size of 7.2. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) 222 people died, 976 were injured, and more than 73,000 houses were damaged or destroyed. It has been estimated that the energy the quake released was equivalent to 32 Hiroshima bombs.
- (Philippines.hvu.nl)
• The formation of the alps and Himalayas

• Mount Mayon is the most active volcano in the Philippines. Since 1616 there were 47 eruptions. From 1616 until 2002 at least 1300 people died and thousands of people got homeless as a result of all the eruptions
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