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What are plates moving toward each other?
Plates that move toasted each other are detractive plates meeting at a destructive margin. If a continental and an oceanic plate move towards each other, earthquakes and volcanoes occur, this is called a subduction margin, but if the plates are both continental then fold mountains form this is a collision margin
What is the layer that the earths plates are sliding on?
Tectonic Plates are part of the crust, and floats on the semi-molten rock magma layer.
What is the physical layers of the earth?
The outermost layer of the earth is the lithosphere, from the greek "lithos" meaning stone. It includes all of the tectonic plates, and "floats" on the asthenosphere.
What is it called when two plates collide and cause a volcanic eruption?
A destructive margin
What is the top physical layer of the earth?
The outermost layer of the earth is the lithosphere, from the greek "lithos" meaning stone. It includes all of the tectonic plates, and "floats" on the asthenosphere.
What is happening at the plate margin of vesuvius?
I suppose that it is a part of friction between two continental plates.
What are plates that move towards each other?
Plates that move toasted each other are detractive plates meeting at a destructive margin. If a continental and an oceanic plate move towards each other, earthquakes and volcanoes occur, this is called a subduction margin, but if the plates are both continental then fold mountains form this is a collision margin
What is the irregular section of the lithosphere that floats on earths mantle?
The irregular section of the lithosphere that floats on Earth's mantle is known as the tectonic plates. These plates are composed of the Earth's crust and the uppermost part of the mantle, and they vary in size and shape. The movement of these plates is driven by convection currents in the underlying mantle, leading to geological phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the formation of mountain ranges.
Tectonic plates float on a layer of the earth called the?
The outer layer of the earth where the land masses are is called the crust
How are crustal plates similar to ice floating on a pond?
The plates are floating on magma, and will eventually melt as they are subducted back into the mantle, just like ice melting as it floats in the water.
What plate boundary does eartquake occurs?
There are 3 ways an earthquake can be caused: destructive margin: this can cause an earthquake and volcano and is the most dangerous margin. it is when one plate slides under another. collision margin: this only creates earthquakes, and it is when two plates move towards each other and collide. conservative margin: this is when plates slide against each other, like San Andrea's Fault, California. They only create earthquakes. Hope this helps ! xx
What will An active continental margin have a while a passive margin generally does not?
An active continental margin will have tectonic activity like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to the collision of tectonic plates. In contrast, a passive margin generally does not have such tectonic activity because it is far from plate boundaries and lacks the forces that drive tectonic movements.
