Plate boundaries

Geography

Inside Earth

The movement of tectonic plates

Types of volcanoes

Volcanic hazards

Living close to volcanoes

The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo

Earthquakes

The effects of earthquakes

Living in earthquake regions

The 2025 Myanmar Earthquake

The 2018 Sunda Strait Tsunami

This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that lead to tectonic hazards and investigates the geographical pattern of hazards across the world. Pupils will also learn how tectonic hazards affect people in different places and how people seek to manage hazards.

Tectonic hazards: Why is Earth restless?

Large, moving sections of Earth's lithosphere

Which plate boundary forms new crust as plates move apart?

Does the oceanic plate fully melt into magma when it subducts?

It is stronger than the continental plate

It moves faster than the continental plate

Why does the oceanic plate sink at a destructive plate boundary?

A crack in Earth’s crust that releases lava

What is the point on Earth’s surface directly above the origin of an earthquake called?

Put the layers of Earth in the correct order, starting from the surface to the centre.

Plate boundaries

Lesson outcome