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How do convection currents and gravitational forces affect the earth' crust?
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∙ 11y ago
It affects the earth's crust as it is related to the action of divergent boundaries where two plates are moving apart causing the continents to move. This is linked to convection currents as hot rocks lower in the mantle are forced up to the surface by gravitational forces, cooling, sinking and then heating again, helping the movement of the rigid plates
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What forces causes natural convection currents?
gravitational force
The driving forces to tectonic plates are related to convection currents in earths what?
mantle.
What forces and factors affect the direction of the ocean current?
Deep ocean currents are caused by differences in saltiness or water temperature.
How are plates motions connected with motions within the rest of the earths mantle?
convection currents in the mantle provide the basic driving forces for plate motions.
Which planet has shepherd satellites?
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What forces causes natural convection currents?
gravitational force
What 3 forces possibly move tectonic plates?
convection currents
The driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in Earth's?
mantle.
The driving forces to tectonic plates are related to convection currents in earths what?
mantle.
Which forces responsible for earths crust and lithosphere floating on the mantle?
convection currents in the upper mantle
What forces affect a race cars speed on a track?
Friction and Gravitational forces
What forces are thought to cause plate tectonic movement?
Convection currents (the movement of magma beneath the plates)
What forces affect tides?
Tides are caused by the gravitational forces on Earth from the Moon and the Sun.
What forces and factors affect the direction of the ocean current?
Deep ocean currents are caused by differences in saltiness or water temperature.
What happens to plates above rising convection currents?
the large amount of energy forces the two plates to move apart
What forces cause the movement of the continents from one supercontinent to their present positions?
the movement of convection currents in the mantle is the cause of plate motion.
What are convection currents in a mantle?
The asthenosphere is the layer of the Earth directly below the brittle lithosphere, made of solid rock with a small percentage of melt, which is under tremendous pressure and temperature conditions. It performs and moves in a ductile fashion (highly viscous) even though it is considered rock, and does not break while under stress, but can move due to convection currents of heat arising from Earth's interior.
