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What is the name of plates that wont sink?
Continental plates will not sink.
A region where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere?
a region where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere is called a subduction zone.
Why do plates sink to the mantle?
The Earth's plates sink into the mantle because of one plate pushing another down, causing a subduction zone.
How a subduction zone forms?
When two plates move together (at least one must be oceanic crust), one will sink beneath the other. The result is that a subduction zone forms between the two plates at the location where they meet.
What is total plate count in water?
when you fill your kitchen sink with water and dirty plates...the number of plates in the sink is the total plate count in water. lol
A region where oceanic plates sink down?
Subduction Zone
What causes some oceanic plates to sink and others to float?
All oceanic plates float on top of the mantle, and sink into the mantle underneath a less dense plate in plate collision zones.
Can you spray Lysol on a kitchen sink?
Lysol is not safe to spray on a kitchen sink. It contains chemicals harmful if ingested. If you are washing you're dishes in a Lysol covered sink then your plates will be contaminated, when you eat off the plates you are ingesting all those bad chemicals.
What is A region where oceanic plates sink down into the lithosphere?
A subduction zone.
When two continental plates collide why doesn't one sink?
In a way one does, however instead of sinking it stoops below forming volcanoes. And you would not sink due to the speed of the tectonic plates colliding
When plates collide with continental plates does the denser ocean plate sink?
Yes, it "dives" under the continental crust and back into the mantle.
What takes up more water a dishwasher or an sink?
A dishwasher since it has to clean a whole bunch of plates while a sink dispenses less.
