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What causes plates to stop moving temporarily?
Friction causes plates to stop moving temporarily. The motion of the magma under the plates will cause the plates to move again.
Which of earth's layers causes plates to move?
The Asthensphere.
What is stresses in tectonic plates?
Magma moving underneath the earth causes tectonic plates to move about.
Is the force that causes plates to move sideways past each other.?
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.
What causes the Continental and oceani plates to move?
The tectonic plates move because of the great amount of liquid rock, or magma that they 'float' on and get pushed by.
What causes earths plates to move continuously?
Convection in the earth's mantle.
What type of transfer causes plates to move?
Divergent, convergent and transforming.
The lithosphere is broken into pieces called what?
what causes the earths tectonic plates to move
What is a theory of plate?
every year the plates move slowly and when the plates meet, that's what causes an earth quake
What causes continental plates to move?
Continental plates move due to the process of plate tectonics, where the plates float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere layer beneath them. This movement is driven by convection currents in the mantle, caused by heat from the Earth's core. When these currents push or pull on the plates, they cause them to move, leading to phenomena like earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the formation of mountains.
How does the movement of earths plates cause earthquakes?
The plates rub together causing the rocks to move and it causes the ground to shake forming an earthquake. The more the plates move, the bigger the earthquake number.
What do lithospheric plate movements have to do with convection?
there is convection in the mantle. it causes the plates to move.
