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What is the theory that states that the earth's crust is divided into rigid plates that slowly move across the upper mantle?
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plate tectonics.
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What is the surface on which the lithospheric plates move around earths surface?
Lower mantle is the surface on which the lithospheric plates move around earths surface.
What happens as earths mantle drags on the bottom of techtonic plates?
The plates move
What layer of the earth forms the earths plates?
Tectonic plates are floating on the magma (semi-molten rocks) of the mantle layer. Therefore, they form the crust layer of the Earth.
The driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in Earth's?
mantle.
What process causes earths plates to move?
The process of 'earth plates moving' is Alfred Wageners theory of continental drift. This theory proposes that convenction currents in the earths mantle provides a 'cushion' on which the plates can move.
What layer are the plates on?
The worlds tectonic plates slide on the earths mantle.
What is the surface on which the lithospheric plates move around earths surface?
Lower mantle is the surface on which the lithospheric plates move around earths surface.
What happens as earths mantle drags on the bottom of techtonic plates?
The plates move
What does it mean to say earths plates float?
plates actually float on earth's mantle
What layer are the plates sliding on?
The worlds tectonic plates slide on the earths mantle.
What are oceans current are formed by what?
Moving plates in the earths mantle.
What layer in earths mantle do the plates slide over?
The asthenosphere.
How does plate tectonics affect the mantle?
Tectonic Plates float on top of the earths mantle, the earths mantle is made up liquid which is always circulating.
What layer of the earth forms the earths plates?
Tectonic plates are floating on the magma (semi-molten rocks) of the mantle layer. Therefore, they form the crust layer of the Earth.
What causes earths plates to move continuously?
Convection in the earth's mantle.
The driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in Earth's?
mantle.
Which process is currently accepted explanation of the movement of drifting continents?
the convection currents in the mantle under the earths curst is moving the broken plates in earths lithosphere causing the plates slide across the lithosphere. this process is called tectonics. (jon lay wrote this,)
