0
This tends to occur below a constructive / divergent plate boundary so the plates will move away from each other.
Mark Greenholt
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How can something as large and heavy as a whole continent move around?
tectonic plates move by convection currents. Convection currents are currents that start by hot air rising and eventually turning cooler then lowers. This continues in a constant pattern like a week.
Heat rising from within earth causes earth's what to move?
Heat rising from within the Earth causes the Earth's tectonic plates to move. The constant rising and sinking of heat are called convection currents.
How do plates move where convection currents are risig?
The lithosphere is the continental crust, oceanic crust and upper part of the mantle. The convection currents move in the mantle mostly in the Asthenosphere layer under the lithosphere. As the convention currents move it makes the lithosphere spread and shake.
Why do the plates of the lithosohere move?
Because of the convection currents in the mantel.
What do convection currents do over time?
They move tectonic plates
What happens to plates above rising convection currents?
the large amount of energy forces the two plates to move apart
Do convection currents in the oceans cause tectonic plates to move?
No, convection currents in the upper mantle cause tectonic plates to move.
What causes your plates to move?
convection currents!
How can something as large and heavy as a whole continent move around?
tectonic plates move by convection currents. Convection currents are currents that start by hot air rising and eventually turning cooler then lowers. This continues in a constant pattern like a week.
Which layer of the earth contains convection currents that move the tectonic plates?
The upper mantle contains convection currents that move the tectonic plates.
Heat rising from within earth causes earth's what to move?
Heat rising from within the Earth causes the Earth's tectonic plates to move. The constant rising and sinking of heat are called convection currents.
What makes tectonic plates move?
convection currents :)
What are convection currents in?
They are the means by which plates of the lithoshpere move.
Why do the plates move?
because of convection currents in the mantle
How do plates move where convection currents are risig?
The lithosphere is the continental crust, oceanic crust and upper part of the mantle. The convection currents move in the mantle mostly in the Asthenosphere layer under the lithosphere. As the convention currents move it makes the lithosphere spread and shake.
Scientists think plates are moved by?
volcanos and earthquakes
How do lithosphere plates move where convection currents rise?
They move apart.
