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How have crustal plates moved over time?
Molten magma from the mantle rises at the top oceanic ridge, cools and solidifies, continually forming a crustal plate. Hundreds to thousands of miles from the ridge the plate moves downward into the mantle at the contact with another plate and melts. The continuous process resembling a large "conveyor belt" moves the crustal plate a few centimeters each year.
What crustal feature will form when two crustal plates move together?
a fault
Why do rocks and crustal plates move?
beacause it is moving
What forms when two crustal plates move apart?
an earthquake
Do plates and crustal plates differ?
Plates and Crustal plates are not different it can also be called as Crustal rocks
How does the crustal plates moves?
by bubbling hot magma in the earth's inner core, erupting from volcanoes and causing earthquakes which cause the crustal plates to move.
How many plates are in the crustal plates?
There are 14 crustal plates on the earth.
Why are mountains and earthquakes two geologic features found on earths surface that are caused by the movement of crustal plates?
They are geologic features because when the crustal plates move its makes cracks on earth the the mountains are one because everytime the crustal plates move it breaks the earths surface and the dirt and rocks start gathering together
What is sliding boundary?
forms when two {crustal} lithosphere plates move apart.
Discuss evidence that suggests crustal plates move over time?
1. Earthquakes 2. Radioactivity from the plates.
What is the evidence for the existence of crustal plates?
Worldwide, the mountains are the evidence of crustal plates.
What is formed when crustal plates move toward each other?
when tectonic plates move toward each othe forms
