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Q: How do tectonic plates affect California's geology?
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How is a mountain formed by colliding continental plates?

In theory, tectonic plates. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html


How do tectonic plates affect caves?

it made them


How do covergent boundary plates affect earths surface?

The tectonic plates combined together


Why are tectonic plates considered to be a unifying theory?

it unified many of the previously isolated concepts of geology into a single theory


What are the large thin plates that move relative to one another on the outer surface of earth called?

They are called tectonic or lithospheric plates.


How do convection cells affect the crust above it?

It will move the tectonic plates


Do earthquakes affect the earth?

It's a shift in the Earth's tectonic plates.


What are the plates that make up Earth's crust?

Tectonic plates


How does plates affect the surface of the surface?

when tectonic plate collides with other tectonic plates or moves into another tectonic plate it affects surface in a way to create mountains. Like Himalayas are created when the indian tectonic plate collided with asian tectonic plate.


The lithosphere is broken up into sections called?

Tectonic plates


How does a convection cell affect the crust material above it?

It will move the tectonic plates


How do convection cells affect the crust material above it?

It will move the tectonic plates