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What is stress that pulls on the rocks of the crust called?
Stress that acts to pull materials (including rocks of the crust) apart is known as tensile stress.
What causes rocks to pull apart?
The type of stress that causes rocks to pull apart is a tension stress. It is the major type of stress found in divergent plate boundaries.
What stress causes rocks to pull apart?
The type of stress that causes rocks to pull apart is a tension stress. It is the major type of stress found in divergent plate boundaries.
How can plants pull rocks apart?
because they are the same lengh
What is the force that stretches or pull apart the crust called?
When there is a divergent boundary, regardless if the plates are ocean-ocean or continental-continental, tensional stress pulls on the crust. Rocks have weaker tensional strength than compressive strength, so they are easier to pull apart.
What occurs when tension forces pull rocks apart?
Normal Fault
What is the name given to the force that tends to pull rocks apart?
Tensile stress.
What are the fibers that shorten and pull the chromatids apart called?
Microtubules pull the chromatids from the chromosome apart. Each former sister c
What process can break rocks apart?
erosion can break rocks apart, weathering can also break rocks apart
What is it called when plant roots that force cracks in rocks farther apart?
natural decomposition
How can you tell rocks apart?
You can tell rocks apart by its hardness, cleavage, and streak
When water and ice chemical and and even plants break rocks apart into smaller pieces it is called what?
It is called weathering.
