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What occurs at a transform boundary?
The plates slide past each other. It can cause earthquakes.
Does glycolysis operate under aerobic or anaerobic conditions?
It isn't, it is a strictly anaerobic process. However it may occur in organisms that use oxygen in a related process.
How are the movement of plates at divergent boundaries and at the transform boundaries similar?
The difference between transform and divergent boundaries is that transform boundaries occur when tectonic plates slide past each other, whereas at divergent boundaries they move away from each other. However in both cases the plates move horizontally (unlike at convergent boundaries where one plate may be pushed underneath another).
A fault where plates slide past or over each other?
a transform boundary
What results from an oceanic plate to oceanic plate convergence?
The convergence creates a trench where the more dense of the two plates flows downward toward the mantle. Earthquakes may occur in the area of the plate boundary, as well as volcanism.
What occurs at a transform boundary?
The plates slide past each other. It can cause earthquakes.
Tectonic plates forming a transform boundary may move only a few centimeters each year can even this small movement affect people and communities living near a transform boundary?
When tectonic plates slide past each other, the movement may cause earthquakes, which might injure people or damage property in a community.
Where oceanic crust collides with continental crust is the?
This type of plate boundary is a convergent boundary where subduction of the denser oceanic slab into the mantle will occur. Because of this it may also be called a destructive margin.
Three types of plate boundaries?
Convergent (or destructive): Where two plates are moving toward each other. Collisions between oceanic plates results in subduction of the more dense plate. Collisions between an oceanic plate and a continental plate may result in the subduction of the oceanic plate because oceanic plates are more dense than continental plates. Collisions between two continental plates results in uplift and mountain formation where neither plate subducts.Divergent (or constructive): Where two plates are moving away from each other. Divergent plate boundaries are the site of new crust formation, particularly at the mid-ocean ridges, where spreading plates are infilled with basaltic magma from the asthenosphere.Transform (or conservative): Where two plates slide (actually 'grind') alongside each other and neither plate subducts. Earthquakes are common at transform faults due to the grinding and snapping movements of the plates as they move.
What type of fault where each plate slides past each other?
When two plates slide past each other, this is called a transform fault. Earthquakes can occur when the plates scrape by. If the earthquake happens underwater, a tsunami may occur. (Like in Japan)
Does glycolysis operate under aerobic or anaerobic conditions?
It isn't, it is a strictly anaerobic process. However it may occur in organisms that use oxygen in a related process.
How are the movement of plates at divergent boundaries and at the transform boundaries similar?
The difference between transform and divergent boundaries is that transform boundaries occur when tectonic plates slide past each other, whereas at divergent boundaries they move away from each other. However in both cases the plates move horizontally (unlike at convergent boundaries where one plate may be pushed underneath another).
What are the two kids of earthquakes?
There are three forms of earthquakes which are the convergent boundary, divergent boundary, and the transform fault. The earthquake waves may be in P-waves (primary) and in S-waves (secondary).
What is a sentence with the word divergent boundary?
Often, a divergent boundary within a continent will produce rifts, which will produce rift valleys. A divergent boundary may also be referred to as an extensional boundary, a constructive boundary, or a divergent plate boundary.
How do plate move a convergent boundary?
A convergent boundary is one where two plates are grinding into each other, so the plates are moving toward each other. If one plate more dense than the other, (say a continent and an oceanic plate collide) then the denser plate (the oceanic plate) may be subducted. If two plates of similar or the same density collide, then neither plate will subduct, and crustal thickening may occur. This is the process which formed the Himalayas, resulting from the pressure of two continental plates, the Indian and the Asian.
What is the process that pieces of the plate that subducts may be scraped off and attached to the overriding plate forming mountains chains parallel to the plate boundary called?
An island arch.
A fault where plates slide past or over each other?
a transform boundary
