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Tension is the force that causes plates to move sideways past each other. This can cause built up stress that releases suddenly and causes earthquakes.
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What is the force that causes plates to move sideways past each other?
The force that causes plates to move sideways past each other is known as shear stress. This results from the differential motion of tectonic plates at plate boundaries, where frictional resistance and built-up energy create lateral movement along faults. The release of this stress through earthquakes is common at transform boundaries like the San Andreas Fault in California.
What is the force that causes plates to move sideways?
The force that causes plates to move sideways is known as shear stress. This stress occurs when plates slide horizontally past each other along a transform fault boundary as a result of the movement of the underlying mantle material.
Force involved when plates move past each other sideways?
the answer is tension
The places between plates that are passing each other sideways are called what?
Faults.
The force that causes rocks to break as plates rub past each other is called what?
The force that causes rocks to break as plates rub past each other is called shear stress. This stress leads to the formation of faults and the subsequent release of energy in the form of earthquakes.
What is the name of a plate boundary were plates move sideways?
A transform plate boundary is where plates move sideways past each other. This movement typically creates strike-slip faults.
What is the fault between two plates moving sideways past each other called?
The fault between two plates moving sideways past each other is called a transform fault. This type of fault occurs at transform boundaries where tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other.
What force move convergent boundary?
At a convergent boundary, tectonic plates are typically pushed together by the force of subduction where one plate is forced beneath the other, or by collision where the plates directly collide with each other. This movement can be driven by the force of mantle convection, where heat from the Earth's core causes the mantle to flow in a circular motion.
What are the places between plates that are passing each other sideways called?
Faults Boundary. Eg Transform fault.
The force tension at a divergent plate boundary causes a what?
The force tension at a divergent plate boundary causes the two plates to move away from each other. As the plates separate, magma rises from the mantle to fill the gap, forming new crust. This process is known as seafloor spreading.
Can earthquakes cause volcano erruptions?
Earthquakes can cause volcanos to errupt by the plates moving and crashing into one other which creates an earthquake(when plates collide it causs an earthquake) so the force of the earthquake causes a volcano erruption.
How are the pushed together and pulled apart?
Both continental and oceanic plates float on the top surface of the mantle, which is divided into convection cells. The movement of these convection cells drag the plates along: where convection causes the mantle material to fall the plates are pushed together and where convection causes the mantle material to rise the plates are pulled apart.
