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Explain why volcanoes are commonly found at the edges of Earth's moving plates?
Volcanoes are commonly found at the edges of Earth's moving plates because this is where the movement of the plates causes the Earth's crust to become thinner and more fractured. Magma from the mantle below the crust can then more easily rise up through these fractures, leading to volcanic activity. This process is known as plate tectonics.
Where are most active volcanoes abundant?
Edges of tectonic plates
Why are volcanoes usually found on edges of tectonic plates?
because they form from earthquakes
What type of tectonic plates move in opposite but parallel directions along a fault line?
The plates with a transforming boundary. These will create different "landmarks" such as lakes (if the edges have a curve), valleys, rivers, and abandoned riverbeds.
What are two things that can happen at the edges of tectonic plates?
They could meet and cause an earthquake.
What is likely to occur on the earth's surface where it lies above the edges of crustal plates?
volcanoes,earthquakes,mountains
What happens when two continental plates?
If the plates are moving together from opposite directions, the colliding edges will uplift into mountain ranges. If the plates are moving apart, a rift valley will form. If the plates are moving together at oblique angles, a fault zone will occur.
How plate tectonics move?
== == The main features of plate tectonics are: * The Earth's surface is covered by a series of crustal plates. * The plates are composed of crustal rock and solid upper mantle which is called the lithosphere. * Plates are composed of continental and oceanic crust. * The oceanic crusts are continually moving, spreading from the center, sinking at the edges, in a process of recycling. * Rising legs of convection currents beneath the plates create additional plate material at mid-ocean ridges, sinking legs of convection currents swallow old crustal plates at subduction zones. * The heat driving the convection currents is from radioactive decay of material within the Earth and from residual heat from accretion processes during Earth's formation. Convection cells in the magma of the outer core pull the earth's tectonic plates along the surface. These plates can collide and cause earthquakes.
Explain why volcanoes are commonly found at the edges of Earth's moving plates?
Volcanoes are commonly found at the edges of Earth's moving plates because this is where the movement of the plates causes the Earth's crust to become thinner and more fractured. Magma from the mantle below the crust can then more easily rise up through these fractures, leading to volcanic activity. This process is known as plate tectonics.
Where do earthquakes and volcanoes mostly frequently occur?
Underground Earthquakes occur along fault lines. Volcanoes are all over the world but a good place to find one is in the Ring of Fire.
What causes earthquakes at the edges of tectonic plates?
Earthquakes are mostly found at the edges of plates because that is the area of which the plates collide in different ways resulting in earthquakes and volcanoes.
What are the edges of the plates?
de pleit boundaris
What boundaries are convergent and divergent?
Boundaries, or faults, are locations on the edges of plates, crustal masses that are very slowly moving atop the convective outer mantle (asthenosphere).At convergent boundaries, two crustal masses (plates) are pushing into each other. This can result in subduction, so may be a destructive boundary.At divergent boundaries, two masses of rock are pulling away from each other. This can be a constructive boundary when it produces rifting and seafloor spreading.At transform boundaries, or transform faults, rock masses move past one another. These are known as conservativeboundaries because crust is neither destroyed or created.(these can cause earthquakes when accumulated strain is released)
How many edges and vertices a cylinder has?
A cylinder has 0 vertices. If an edge is defined by the meeting of two faces then there are two edges but if an edge is defined by the meeting of two PLANE faces then there are 0 edges.
Do volcanoes form only on the edges of plates?
Yes
A __ is where edges of tectonic plates meet?
plate boundary
Why are the edges of plates so important to the cause and location of earthquakes?
I'm afraid I only know the cause. When the edges of the tectonic plates rub together it causes vibrations, that is the earthquake.
