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Tectonic plates are very large (their highest points form the continents) and constitute the hard crust of the planet.

They sit afloat the mantle - molten material called magma - and they are formed from- and return to- magma as parts of the plates are cooled or heated.

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Tectonic plates. They aren't necessarily "small" rather than "smaller" than the entire lithosphere.

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Tectonic Plates compose the lithosphere

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Are tectonic plate under ground or above ground?

Tectonic Plates are the ground. They are large slabs of earth that float on top of the magma.


What slabs of rock are the earths hard shell?

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What are the slabs of rock called in the earths hard shell?

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What are the large and small slabs of rock that meake up pieces of the lithosphere?

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What are the slabs of the lithosphere floating on the molten mantle called?

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When 2 slabs of rock collide what happens?

An earthquake . . . the tectonic plates are slabs of rock and when thy shift, it creates an earthquake.


What do you call the moving irregularly shape slabs that make up the Earths lithosphere?

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What do you call the moving irregularly shaped slabs that make up the earths lithosphere?

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What is the name of thick slabs of rock on the earth's hard shell which are constantly moving?

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Do tectonic plates make caves?

Caves are formed in many ways but mostly by chemical weathering of the surface rock. Tectonic plates on the other hand are huge slabs of rock that form the Earth's crust. Caves are not formed by tectonic plates, think of caves as tiny boreholes in the very surface of a tectonic plate. I agree