Plate Boundaries
Your child knows why most quakes and volcanoes sit at plate edges. Plates push together, pull apart, or slide past. Where they collide, mountains rise up.
In curriculum terms
Explain how plate boundaries cause earthquakes and volcanoes: plates pushing together, pulling apart, or sliding past each other create the forces that trigger these events, and mountains form where plates collide
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Can your child explain why most volcanoes and earthquakes happen at the edges of tectonic plates — where plates push together, pull apart, or slide past each other?
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This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).