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A continent is what floats on top of the plate. There are continental and oceanic plates. The continents float on the continental plate and the ocean sits on the oceanic plate. But there are also plates that carry both continents and oceans. The plates are what causes continental drift. So basically plates are what carry the continents and oceans.
Eleanore Heidenreich
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What is a difference between a Country and a Continent?
a continent is made up of countries
What is the differnce between a continent and a island?
The difference between a continent and a island is that continents sit on their own continental lithosphere and islands do not. Greenland is the largest island and Australia is the smallest continent.
Difference between a country and continent?
The continent is a large land mass which is independent in nature , where as the contry is the continent biengs divided into unequal landmasses.
Which continent sits on top of the Arabian plate?
The continent that sits on top of the Arabian plate is Asia. The Arabian plate consists mostly of the Arabian peninsula.
What is one difference between a country and a continent?
Usually there are many countries comprising a continent, however, that is not true of Australia. However the fundamental difference is that a continent is a geological/physical geographical entity while a country is a geopolitical entity.
What is the difference between single plate clutch and multi plate clutch?
"What is the difference between single plate clutch and multi plate clutch?"
What is a difference between a continent and a country?
a continent is made up of countries
What is a difference between a Country and a Continent?
a continent is made up of countries
Which plate boundary is responsible for mountain building?
Convergent plate boundaries are responsible for mountain building. Continent-to-continent boundaries build mountains like the Himalayas. Continent-to-ocean boundaries build mountains like the Cascades. The difference is that continent-to-continent convergent boundaries do not produce volcanoes.
What relationship is there between a continent and a tectonic plate?
its called don't be lazY
The Scotia plate lies between antarctica and which continent?
South America.
Which plate does not carry a continent?
The Pacific Plate does not carry a continent.
What is the difference between a plate and the lithosphere?
lithosphere is something that is under a plate. plate is the thing continents are on.
What is the difference between a convergent plate boundary and a destructive plate boundary?
there the same
What is the difference between a pitcher's plate and the home plate in softball?
43 feet
What is the difference between a continent a region and a hemisphere?
a region is a area a continent is a land mass
What is an example of an active continent to continent collision?
I can't give you a continent to continent but I can give you tectonic plate to tectonic plate. The Indian-Australian Plate is colliding with the Eurasian plate to form the Himalayan Mountains.
