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The heat in the Earth's core makes the magma more liquid and allows the movement of the crustal plates.
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What does the amount of movement between particles depend on?
Mass
Does heat from the inner core and movement of tectonic plates produce seismic waves?
no.
What drives the process of plates tectonics the currently accepted explanation for the movement of drifting continents?
Unequal heat distribution.
What is the name of the movement of material from the center of the earth outwards this helps to carry heat and move plates?
convection currents
How do plate tectonics move?
Tectonic plates are segments of the Earth's lithosphere, the hard rocky outer shell composed of the crust and the uppermost mantle. This shell is divided by lines of faults, ridges of plate creation, and zones of plate destruction. All in all, there are roughly 30 tectonic plates which cover the entire surface of the planet. Plates can be composed of oceanic crust, continental crust, or a combination of both. Plate movements occur because the layer of Earth directly below the lithosphere, the asthenosphere, is hot enough, and under enough lithostatic pressure to prevent its melting, that it can deform without fracture. And although convection of heat does play a role in the movement of lithospheric plates, the convection currents themselves may be caused by gravity, which induces the sinking of older dense slabs of oceanic crust at subduction zones (a process known as 'slab pull'). The energy driving all of these processes is heat from the interior of the Earth derived from radioactive decay and residual heat from Earth's formation, and gravity which results in slab pull and push.
How the movement of tectonic plates result in the formation of crustal features?
Magma is the molten rock below the crust, in the mantle. Tremendous heat and pressure within the earth cause the hot magma to flow in convection currents. These currents cause the movement of the tectonic plates that make up the earth's crust.
What is one other way energy is transferred from the inside of Earth to the outside other than by crustal plate movement?
Heat loss by electromagnetic radiation & by convection
What does the amount of movement between particles depend on?
Mass
Does heat from the inner core and movement of tectonic plates produce seismic waves?
no.
Why are each of the earth's plates floating like a raft?
The crustal plates are less dense than the mantle but hard and solid. Because of heat convection currents in the plastic-like rock of the mantle, the crust is pushed and pulled as material from the mantle pushes it's way to the surface and is drawn down again, creating tectonic plate movement.
What is the driving force for the movement of the lithosphere plates?
unequal distribution of heat within Earth.
What is the Driving Force For Movement Of The Lithospheric Plates?
unequal distribution of heat within Earth.
What is the driving force of the movement lithosphere plates?
unequal distribution of heat within Earth.
How plate tectonics move?
== == The main features of plate tectonics are: * The Earth's surface is covered by a series of crustal plates. * The plates are composed of crustal rock and solid upper mantle which is called the lithosphere. * Plates are composed of continental and oceanic crust. * The oceanic crusts are continually moving, spreading from the center, sinking at the edges, in a process of recycling. * Rising legs of convection currents beneath the plates create additional plate material at mid-ocean ridges, sinking legs of convection currents swallow old crustal plates at subduction zones. * The heat driving the convection currents is from radioactive decay of material within the Earth and from residual heat from accretion processes during Earth's formation. Convection cells in the magma of the outer core pull the earth's tectonic plates along the surface. These plates can collide and cause earthquakes.
How variation in the heat flow from the earth's interior affect the movement of plates and volcanic activity?
the heat caus the earth to move do to its atraction to the sun
The process of heat transfer thought to be responsible for the movement of the lithospheric plates on the surface of the earth is?
you are on odysseyware arnt you
What caused the continental plate to move?
The Earth's plates are lighter than the mantle. The top layer of the mantle is almost plastic in it's ability to bend and move without breaking. Heat from the interior of Earth appears to rise in currents through the mantle. The crustal plates ride on these currents as new crust is created at the mid-ocean ridges, and destroyed at oceanic trenches.
