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Q: What is formed when the rock making up a tectonic plate breaks or moves?
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What is formed when the rock making up a tectonic plate breaks and moves?

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When the rock making up a tectonic plate breaks and moves?

A Fault(:


How did a rift valley form?

the tectonic plates separate and the ground moves down. then a rift valley is formed


Which feature is formed on the ocean floor when tectonic plates are pushed together so that one plate moves under the other?

ocean trench


What is created where one plate move under another?

A volcano is most often formed whon one tectonic plate moves under another


How do you briefly explain how volcanoes that are located in hot spots formed?

As tectonic plate moves over a mantle plume, rising magma causes a chain of volcanic islands to form.


How do tectonic plates cause contenitial drift?

Because tectonic plates move, therefore if the continent is on it, it moves with it!


What moves the ocean floor?

the tectonic plates under the earths surface


What do geologist call a crustal landmass that moves as a unit?

A Tectonic Plate


What does the earths crust consist of that moves?

Those would be tectonic plates.


What happens when a tectonic plate moves rapidly?

Usually an earthquake occurs.


What do geologists call a crustal landmass that moves as a unit?

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