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Plate tech-tonics are spreading apart and around the globe. So the might collide with another Continent creating volcanoes and all the destruction would lead to extinction
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Does plate movements help to drive the rock cycle?
Yes, because this can cause a volcano to erupt which will form igneous rock. This will then later lead to the rest of the cycle.
How are volcanoes formed by tectonic plates?
Plate tectonics can lead to volcanic activity in two ways. Where two tectonics plates pull apart, the crust becomes thinner, which decreases pressure on the upper mantle and allows rock the melt and move to the surface. At subduction zones, where a plate collision forces oceanic crust into the mantle, seawater dragged down with the plate alters the chemistry of the mantle rock, allowing it to melt at a lower temperature.
What is the possible connection between the constant processes of plate tectonics and natural selection?
Plate tectonic can lead to the isolation of continental or island land masses where the processes of natural selection result in life forms unique to that land mass. This is because competition is not possible between the populations of a isolated land mass and the rest of the Earth's population.
How do plate tectonics help scientists?
1. fertile soils2. ore deposits3. fossil fuels
Convection currents within the Earth cause plate tectonics due to the movement of the mantle true or false?
No. Convection currents which could lead to volcanism in the crust occur in the mantle. The crust is too cold and brittle for convection currents to occur.
Does plate movements help to drive the rock cycle?
Yes, because this can cause a volcano to erupt which will form igneous rock. This will then later lead to the rest of the cycle.
What forces cause changes to volcanoes?
Plate tectonics. As a plate moves under another plate the water in it is heated and rises through the Earth. It will easily follow paths that lead to a volcanoes ports or tubes. When enough pressure builds up in the blocked tubes there is an explosion. Sometimes magma will flow.
Can culling lead to extinction?
yes
How might the extinction of downy woodpeckers affect the phenotype's distribution of gall flies?
Thanks!0 CommentsDowny woodpeckers are the main predators of gall flies, their extinction could lead to a rise in gall flies
How might the extinction of downy woodpeckers affect the phenotypic distribution of gall flies?
Thanks!0 CommentsDowny woodpeckers are the main predators of gall flies, their extinction could lead to a rise in gall flies
How are volcanoes formed by tectonic plates?
Plate tectonics can lead to volcanic activity in two ways. Where two tectonics plates pull apart, the crust becomes thinner, which decreases pressure on the upper mantle and allows rock the melt and move to the surface. At subduction zones, where a plate collision forces oceanic crust into the mantle, seawater dragged down with the plate alters the chemistry of the mantle rock, allowing it to melt at a lower temperature.
What types of natural disasters are likely to occur in Iceland based on plate tectonics?
I'm guessing earthquakes, which, in some cases, can lead to full-scale attacks of regular weather (aka Rain, hail).
What are the processes that lead to extinction?
There are many ways.
What can a lack of adaptability lead to for animals?
Extinction.
What did the extinction of dinosaurs lead to?
The evolution of mammals
Competition without division of resources may lead to?
extinction
Explain why you need to conserve your environment?
We all need to conserve our environment because we currently are destroying it and one day it might not be there and will eventually lead to the extinction of the human species.
