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What are breaks in the earth's crust where plates meet called?
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What are moving pieces under the earths surface that form the earths crust?
The answer is tectonic plates floating on the lithosphere. Does that answer your question? LOL :)
The breaks in the crust where plates meet are called?
faults
What causes the earths crust to rise and fall?
The sudden vibration in the plates inside the crust causes the earths crust to rise & fall.
Earths lithosphere is broken into separate sections called?
It is broken into tectonic plates. Two types are the Continental Crust and the Oceanic Crust.
What is formed when plates within the earths crust bend and crack Earth's crust?
Faults
What are moving pieces under the earths surface that form the earths crust?
The answer is tectonic plates floating on the lithosphere. Does that answer your question? LOL :)
The breaks in the crust where plates meet are called?
faults
What do the plates that form the earths crust float on?
There called tectonic plates, and they do not float on anything.
In science what are breaks between plates known as?
they are Continent sized slab of the earths crust and upper mantle.
Do Breaks in the the crust called faults form where the plates meet?
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The earths crust is made of rock sections called?
Continental plates.
What is the jigsaw like parts of the earths crust called?
Tectonic Plates
Does breaks in the crust called faults form where plates meet?
yes
Magma that breack through the earths curst is called?
Once magma breaks through the earths crust it is called"lava"
What are breaks in the earths crust where rocks have moved in relation with each other called?
The terms you reference involve tectonic plates and fault lines or fault zones (transform fault).
What part of earth contains plates?
The crust. All of the Earths crust are part of techtonic plates.
How do earthquakes cause changes in the earths crust?
It breaks through the crust, and sometimes goes in the core, simply because all of the force and pressure from the plates rubbing together.
