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Plate tectonics move. But the plate margin that cause strong earthquakes are collision and conservative plate margins. I hope it helped!
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What happens when plate tectonics shift?
earth quakes
How do earth effect the earth?
There are plate tectonics in earth and when they move, earth quakes happens. Sometimes the plate tectonics can move a continent. This is called the continental drift. Earth quakes can make volcanoes explode, tsunamis happen, and continents break. For example: The continent Pangaea. Because of the plate tectonics that caused earthquakes, tsunamis, and continents braking apart, the Pangaea broke up in to more continents and the continents broke into even more. That is why there are 7 continents in the world now. Earth quakes don't cause all these. Plate tectonics does. Plate tectonics makes earth quakes. Then, other horrible stuff happens.
Impact on earth of a earthquakes?
It has many impacts on the Earth, such as moving the plates on the Earth to create earthquakes. It starts on fault lines, and it changes the Earth's surface in many ways, creating volcanoes and sometimes (if its in the water) it makes a tsunami!
What do plate tectonics cause?
volcanoes,earthquakes,mountains (volcanoe's make after they die) also tsunami's
How do plate tectonics cause ocean basins?
the earth.
What dose plate tectonics cause?
earth quake
What does plate tectonics cause a change in?
The earth's crust
How does convection in the Earth's Mantle?
Seems like an incomplete question, but if I assume cause plate tectonics is the subject then convection causes subduction zones with associated earth quakes, mountain building, tsunamis and volcanic activity.
What do plate tectonics help explain?
They explain the cause of earthquakes on Earth.
Which theory describes the motion of earth's crust on its mantle?
plate tectonics=D
What does plate mean like in science?
they are under the earths surface and cause earth Quakes
The idea that Earth's crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs called plates is known as?
That is plate tectonics. These slabs are constantly moving generating earth quakes.
