The constent collideing and shifting causes mountain ranges to grow larger and faults to form.
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The theory of plate tectonics has shaped the surface of the Earth through collision and shifting movements as said previously. Consequently, mountain ranges and faults form on the surface of the Earth. Additionally, Earth has seven or eight major plates, depending on how one would define them, as well as minor plates. The boundary, whether it is convergent, divergent, or transform, is determined by the relative motion.
Forming along these boundaries are earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountains, and ocean trenches. The lateral relative movement of the plates can range from 0-100 mm each year.
The constent collideing and shifting causes mountain ranges to grow larger and faults to form.
Edit:
The theory of plate tectonics has shaped the surface of the Earth through collision and shifting movements as said previously. Consequently, mountain ranges and faults form on the surface of the Earth. Additionally, Earth has seven or eight major plates, depending on how one would define them, as well as minor plates. The boundary, whether it is convergent, divergent, or transform, is determined by the relative motion.
Forming along these boundaries are earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountains, and ocean trenches. The lateral relative movement of the plates can range from 0-100 mm each year.
The constent collideing and shifting causes mountain ranges to grow larger and faults to form.
Edit:
The theory of plate tectonics has shaped the surface of the Earth through collision and shifting movements as said previously. Consequently, mountain ranges and faults form on the surface of the Earth. Additionally, Earth has seven or eight major plates, depending on how one would define them, as well as minor plates. The boundary, whether it is convergent, divergent, or transform, is determined by the relative motion.
Forming along these boundaries are earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountains, and ocean trenches. The lateral relative movement of the plates can range from 0-100 mm each year.
The constent collideing and shifting causes mountain ranges to grow larger and faults to form.
Edit:
The theory of plate tectonics has shaped the surface of the Earth through collision and shifting movements as said previously. Consequently, mountain ranges and faults form on the surface of the Earth. Additionally, Earth has seven or eight major plates, depending on how one would define them, as well as minor plates. The boundary, whether it is convergent, divergent, or transform, is determined by the relative motion.
Forming along these boundaries are earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountains, and ocean trenches. The lateral relative movement of the plates can range from 0-100 mm each year.
The constent collideing and shifting causes mountain ranges to grow larger and faults to form.
Edit:
The theory of plate tectonics has shaped the surface of the Earth through collision and shifting movements as said previously. Consequently, mountain ranges and faults form on the surface of the Earth. Additionally, Earth has seven or eight major plates, depending on how one would define them, as well as minor plates. The boundary, whether it is convergent, divergent, or transform, is determined by the relative motion.
Forming along these boundaries are earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountains, and ocean trenches. The lateral relative movement of the plates can range from 0-100 mm each year.
It's not so much the actual movement, as the after effects of their movement. At a destructive plate margin, the dense oceanic crust sinks under the lighter continental crust (subduction), and melts back into magma under the earth's surface. The magma then rises and cools, forming volcanoes.
At a conservative plate margin, where the plates rub together side by side, the friction causes earthquakes.
Mainly the first one, but earthquakes can affect the shape of earth too :)
volcannic eruptions
it is a part of the EARTH layers.
its called tectonic plate
asthenosphe
asthenosphere
ASTHENOSPHERE
it is a part of the EARTH layers.
it is a part of the EARTH layers.
it is a part of the EARTH layers.
volcannic eruptions
it is a part of the EARTH layers.
Convection in the earth's mantle drives the movement of the tectonic plates.
Subduction.
The movement of tectonic plates has created all of the continents by moving apart. Mountain ranges were formed by the plates running into each other.
While the movement of the tectonic plates can cause earthquakes, without them life on earth would not exist as we know it. The fact that Earth has tectonic plates that move has resulted in the planet ws we know it so there can be NO harm from our perspective.
They can't. Earth would be a permanently frozen planet if it wasn't for the internal heat which causes the movement of tectonic plates. And we would never have existed.
The Tectonic plates shifting