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Q: What is the relationship between continental drift and earthquakes?
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Earthquakes and volcanoes may have been partially responsible for?

continental drift


What is the relationship between continental drift and formation of the earths oceans?

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Do earthquakes make mountains?

No.Mountains are the result of continental drift an volcanic activity. Earthquakes are also the result of continental drift an volcanic activity. Thus the two go together but the earthquakes do not cause the mountains.


Describe the relationship of continental drift and plate tectonics?

The relationship of continental drift and plate tectonics is that the plate tectonics move and are under the ground and the continental drift is on the top of earth...


What are the disasters that follow after a continental drift?

Earthquakes, Volcanoes formation


What things have proved continental drift has occurred?

cracks and earthquakes


What ideas from the theory of plate tectonics add to the theory of continental drift?

earthquakes and volcanoes Do you know how to explain the theory of the continental drift?


What has Earthquakes and volcanoes may have been partially responsible for?

Continental Drift


What is conti nentaldrift?

Continental drift is the drift of continents. The earth consists of large plates floating on a ball of molten rock. Such a plate is called a tectonic plate, and since they float, they can float a way. This is called continental drift. Continental drift is one of the main causes of earthquakes. Earthquakes especially happen when two continental plates are shifting next to each other.


What are the two ways that the movement of tectonics plates affect the earth?

There are lots of affects:- Mountains Volcanoes Earthquakes Continental drift etc.wowee dum as hell


What is the result of tectonic activity?

Tectonic activity has a number of consequences, which include continental drift, earthquakes, and volcanoes.


What is the very slow movement of the continents is called?

Continental Drift