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Q: What mechanisms explain the movement of the tectonic plates?
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What is the therory that explain the movement of tectonic plates?

Continental drift


What causes friction on tectonic plates?

the movement of tectonic plates


Earthquakes occur mainly allong the edges of?

Tectonic plates and fault lines created by the movement of tectonic plates.


What is tectonic earthquake means?

It is the unsual movement of tectonic plates which causes tectonic earthquakes.


What records movement of tectonic plates?

Earthquakes


Where does movement occur in earthquakes?

Tectonic plates.


How does the earthquake in japan have to do with science?

Science tries to explain the world. Many scientists study the movement of tectonic plates that cause earthquakes.


What instruments are used to study the shifting of the plates?

GPS transmitors are used to detect the slow movement of the tectonic plates.


What is the movement plates called?

The movement of tectonic plates is part of the process known as plate tectonics.


What boundary forms when tectonic plates pull apart?

The movement of tectonic plates in opposite directions is referred to as a divergent boundary.


The movement of what can form mountains and valleys?

tectonic plates


What is Titanic plate movement?

its actually tectonic plates