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Q: When the rock making up a tectonic plate breaks and moves?
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What is formed when the rock making up a tectonic plate breaks or moves?

A fault


What is formed when the rock making up a tectonic plate breaks and moves?

Nop


How does plates affect the surface of the surface?

when tectonic plate collides with other tectonic plates or moves into another tectonic plate it affects surface in a way to create mountains. Like Himalayas are created when the indian tectonic plate collided with asian tectonic plate.


What is a tectonic plate that moves together to cause destructive or compressional plate margins?

convergent


Does subduction happen at a plate boundary?

Subduction is the process that takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate.


What do geologist call a crustal landmass that moves as a unit?

A Tectonic Plate


What happens when a tectonic plate moves rapidly?

Usually an earthquake occurs.


What do geologists call a crustal landmass that moves as a unit?

A Tectonic Plate


Is there a link between plate tectoics and earthquakes?

yes when a plate tectonic moves or grinds togeher it = a earthquke


The speed a tectonic plate moves per year is best measured in?

centimeters!


What is the name of the point inside the earth where a tectonic plate breaks during an earthquake?

"epicenter"


What is the plate tectonic process where one plate moves under another?

Subduction.