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What happens when two tectonic plates move apart?
Magma seeps up through the two plates from the mantle and form volcanos.
What are vocanos made of?
volcanoes are formed when two plates in the earths crust move and magma from deep inside move upwards.
What causes magma to form deep inside earth?
Magma is molten meaning liquid-like so it is able to move inside earth. The tectonic plates separate the earth and magma. This explains when the plates move earthquakes and volcanoes occur. Lava is not magma by the way! lava is hardened magma and magma is molten!
WhatMolten rock rises to the earth surface causing these eruptions?
in a colliding boundary two plates move towards each other. one of the plates moves toards the magma and malts with it, because magma is less dense than the rocks on the plates the magma rises to through holes in the plate. gasses get trapped in the lava forming preassure of heat and magma and gasses, when the preassure becomes intense the magma explodes
When plates beneath the ocean move apart from one another what happens to the magma below?
Magma is extruded as lava at the mid-ocean ridges when they are pulled apart.
How Do The Plates Move Of The Normal Fault?
Tectonic plates float on the magma of the Earth's mantle, and move because of convection currents in the magma.
How does the earth's plates move on top of the crust?
The Earth's tectonic plates do not move on top of the crust, they are the crust. The crust is made out of plates. The plates float on top of the mantle, which is made of molten rock, called magma. The plates move because of currents in the magma.
How can magma cause the plates that carry the continents to move apart?
magma is very hot so as it boils it moves the plates of the earth causing the continents to slowly move apart
How plates move at a divergent boundary?
Plates are moved at a divergent boundary by the magma pushing upwards.
How plates move at divergent boundaries?
Plates are moved at a divergent boundary by the magma pushing upwards.
What is stresses in tectonic plates?
Magma moving underneath the earth causes tectonic plates to move about.
What allows the tectonic plates in the lithosphere to move?
the hot magma moves around and they move.
How do transform move?
convection current from the magma in the centre of the earth pushes plates to move.
Why do plates move first year?
they move because its due to the magma and they move to form things etc.....
What causes the Continental and oceani plates to move?
The tectonic plates move because of the great amount of liquid rock, or magma that they 'float' on and get pushed by.
Why does magma often form at the boundary between separating tectonic plates?
the tectonic plates move and the lava rises
What happens at spreading plate boundaries?
tectonic plates move apart allowing magma to move to the surface.
