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Do plates pulling apart cause volcanoes?
no but coliding plates create volcanoes
What causes colliding plates?
tectonic movement can cause tectonic plates to collide, drift apart, or slide across one another
How does the movement of the tectonic plates affect the continents?
It can cause earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and other natural disasters depending on where you live.
Wegener's continental drift hypothesis was weakened because a viable mechanism for moving the continents was lacking?
Yes, they could not find a reason that would cause the movements of the continents. Now, scientists have discovered that the continents don't drift, but rather they are carried by tectonic plates.
What caused continental drift?
volcanos, mountains
The movement of the tectonic plates changes the number of continents on Earth This change would be seen over?
millions of years. The movement of tectonic plates can cause continents to drift apart or come together, leading to the formation or merging of landmasses over geologic timescales.
What is the theory for the cause of continents moving apart from each other?
The theory that explains how continents move apart is called plate tectonics. This theory suggests that the Earth's lithosphere is divided into several rigid plates that float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere below. These plates can move relative to each other, causing continents to separate due to processes such as seafloor spreading at divergent plate boundaries.
Do colliding plates cause earthquakes?
Actually colliding plates cause earthquakes
Do plates pulling apart cause volcanoes?
no but coliding plates create volcanoes
When contients break apart into separate land masses it is called?
When continents break apart into separate land masses, it is called continental drift or plate tectonics. This process is driven by the movement of Earth's tectonic plates, which can cause continents to shift and separate over millions of years.
How could big land masses move apart?
Big land masses can move apart through the process of plate tectonics. This occurs when tectonic plates underneath the Earth's surface shift and separate, creating new boundaries such as divergent boundaries. As these plates move apart, they can cause continents to drift away from each other over millions of years.
Do plate boundaries cause volcanoes?
Not per-Se, but plates pulling apart AND plates being overridden do cause magma upwellings.
What caused continents to separate?
Continental drift is the process by which continents gradually move apart due to the movement of tectonic plates in the Earth's lithosphere. This movement is driven by forces deep within the Earth, such as mantle convection currents, which cause the plates to slide along the underlying asthenosphere. Over millions of years, continents can separate and form new ocean basins in a process known as seafloor spreading.
How did Pangaea broke up into the continents you have today?
The earth has about 13 to 14 plates. These plates shift constantly. As you can see on earth because the cause earthquakes when thay collide. Anyways, the plates moved on Pangea causing them to *DRIFT* away from each other and be in there current places today.
How do plates pull apart?
The process called plate tectonics is responsible for plates pulling apart. Over time, and with the combination of carbon dioxide, erosion, and force, plates are able to pull apart. This will eventually cause some plates to separate from one another.
What makes the continent and the ocean floor unstable?
The continents and ocean floor are unstable because the plates of the lithosphere move. When the plate move, they cause the continents and ocean floor to move.
How do plate tectonics cause the continents to grow?
Plate tectonics cause the continents to grow through a process called seafloor spreading. This occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust forms as tectonic plates move apart. As more crust is added at these ridges, it pushes the existing continents away from each other, causing them to grow in size over millions of years.
