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Do techtonic plates cause harm?
Tectonic plates can cause harm, when they collide with, plunge under one another etc. This is a cause of earthquakes
When two plates collide what can happen?
When two oceanic plates collide, one may be pushed under the other and cause magma from the mantle to rise, forming a volcanoe or volcanoes. When two continential plates collide at a reverse fault tectonic earthquakes occur.
What is it called when two plates collide and cause a volcanic eruption?
A destructive margin
Two continental plates may collide and cause?
Emergence of highlands such as mountain ranges.
What is the effect if the cause is two plates collide and one is pushed upward?
you get mountains out of molehills
What causes colliding plates?
tectonic movement can cause tectonic plates to collide, drift apart, or slide across one another
What is plates when there is an earthquake?
Tectonic plates influence earthquakes because of convection cells that move the plates around. When the plates collide, they cause a shockwave of energy released in the form of a earthquake.
What happens when tech tonic plates collide with oceanic plates?
Tectonic plates are oceanic plates. But when tectonic plates collide and a convergent boundary earthquakes occur.
What is the cause of earthquakes in Southern California?
The tectonic plates shift causing them to collide and shake the ground.
What it is call when Tectonic plates collide?
convergence
What type of boundary is formed when plates collide?
When plates collide it is called a convergent boundary.newtest3
What is collide divide slide?
Collide-When two plates meetDivide-When two plates separateSlide-When two plates move in a smooth way together
