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You may be looking for the term continental drift, but a more accurate answer to your question is that tectonic plates can move because they float on the underlying magma, so the process that allows them to move is simply floating.
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Tectonic plates move due to a process called plate tectonics. It is driven by the movement of molten rock in the Earth's mantle, which causes the plates to slowly drift and collide with each other. This movement is caused by convection currents in the mantle, creating a continuous cycle of plate motion.
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What sort of energy allows tectonick plates to move?
Unequal distribution of heat within Earthcause tectonic plates to move.
What is the Role of asthenosphere in the movement of tectonic plates?
The asthenoshere acts like jello and allows the lithosphere, containing the plate, to move. Tectonic plates could not move without the asthenoshere.
What are the large thin plates that move relative to one another on the outer surface of earth called?
They are called tectonic or lithospheric plates.
Does the tectonic plates move about?
yes the plates can move slowly
How can tectonic plates move thousands of miles?
Tectonic plates move thousands of miles because they are not anchored down.
What is the process called that causes the tectonic plates to move?
Its more ov a movement really not a process. Tectonic plates move due to convection currents in the mantle.
What allows tectonic plates to move on mantle?
convection currents
What part of the mantle allows tectonic plates to move?
The lithosphere.
What allows the tectonic plates in the lithosphere to move?
the hot magma moves around and they move.
What sort of energy allows tectonick plates to move?
Unequal distribution of heat within Earthcause tectonic plates to move.
What is the difference between plate tectonic and tectonic plate?
Plate Tectonics is the process by by which the earth's tectonic plates move.
What is the Role of asthenosphere in the movement of tectonic plates?
The asthenoshere acts like jello and allows the lithosphere, containing the plate, to move. Tectonic plates could not move without the asthenoshere.
I am part of lithosphere but you move around on top of the asthenosphere?
The answer is Tectonic Plates
Does magnetism make the tectonic plates move?
No(see the explanation of the question "Why do the tectonic plates move?"
What are the large thin plates that move relative to one another on the outer surface of earth called?
They are called tectonic or lithospheric plates.
Does the tectonic plates move about?
yes the plates can move slowly
How do the physical properties of the asthehenasphere sopport the ideas of the continental drift?
The asthenosphere allows tectonic plates to move
