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What layer of the earth makes up these plates and on what layer does this occur?
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What layer of the earth makes up plates and on what layer does this occur?
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What earth crust?
The crust is the upper layer of the earth. It is where the movement of plates occur due to which earthquakes occur. The Earth's crust is a thin layer of rock, like skin on an apple.
What are the giant pieces of earth outer layer where most earthquakes occur called?
tectonic plates
Is the boundaries of tectonic plates in a volcanic area?
Well tectonic plates can sometimes be in volcanic areas. But mostly not. --I think volcanoes usually occur on hotspots in the Earth's outer layer--
Which layer of the earth is most affected by an earthquake?
Earthquakes occur in the crust (solid rock) layer.
The outermost layer of the earth The layer of the earth where earthquakes occur?
The crust
Where do volcanoes happpen?
Volcanic eruptions occur only in certain places and do not occur randomly. That's because the Earth's outermost shell -- the lithosphere -- is broken into a series of slabs known as lithospheric ortectonic plates. These plates are rigid, but they float on the hotter, softer layer in the Earth's mantle. There are 16 major plates. As the plates move about, they spread apart, collide, or slide past each other. Volcanoes occur most frequently at plate boundaries.
On what layer of the earth do erosion and weathering occur?
the crust- most outer layer of earth
What layer of the atmosphere would a tornado occur in?
A tornado would occur in the troposphere, the layer closest to the Earth.
In which layer of earth does convection occur?
mantle
Why do faults often occur near near plate boundaries?
Faults occur near plate boundaries because the earth is weaker there... The magma under the Earth's crust makes the plates move very slowly and sometimes two plates can crash into each other causing the ground to shake.
If the tectonic plates float on a layer of the earths crust what is it called?
The mantle or perhaps you are referring to the asthenosphere, the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.
