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How does the movement of tectonic plates contribute to the rock cycle?
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∙ 11y ago
Earths crust is made of several large tectonic plates. These plates slowly move in three ways. 2 plates may move along side each other, away from each other or toward each other. if 2 plates of equal density collide it will result in rocks being crumpled upward forming mountains. if one plate has less density then the other then the plate with more density will slide beneath the less dense plate
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What is a tectonic cycle?
It is when the tectonic plates form and grow older.
The continuous movement of water from earths surface to the atmosphere and back again?
water cycle
Why erosion and deposition are part of a cycle?
Presumably you mean rocks. Well, mountains erode into rivers, which take the eroded matter downstream and deposit them into the sea. This then forms a sea bed of sand, which compresses underneath more sand to form solid rock again. This rock is then usually pushed (by tectonic movement) into new land elsewhere. Thus the cycle starts again.
What is one cycle that is caused by earth's movement in space?
Rotation
What does percolation mean in the water cycle?
the downward movement of water through spaces in soil due to gravity
What is a tectonic cycle?
It is when the tectonic plates form and grow older.
What process allows the tectonic plates to move?
Tectonic plates move due to a process called plate tectonics. It is driven by the movement of molten rock in the Earth's mantle, which causes the plates to slowly drift and collide with each other. This movement is caused by convection currents in the mantle, creating a continuous cycle of plate motion.
Are true statements?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are renewable energy sources. A mineral's hardness is its least informative property. Conglomerates are formed from regional metamorphism. The rock cycle is driven by the movement of tectonic plates.
What are the three processes that cause tectonic plates to move?
Three processes that contribute to the motion of tectonic plates are convection currents, ridge push, and slab pull. Convection currents is when the mantle rises, cools, sinks and heats, then rises and repeats the cycle. Ridge push is a gravitational force that causes a plate to move. Slab pull is the movement of tectonic plate lithosphere due to convection currents in the asthenosphere.
What is the name for the process of recycling materials that make up the Earth's crust and mantle?
Subduction is the process of materials moving back into the earth at the boundary of tectonic plates.
How is the rock cycle related to the movement to earths plates?
convection currents convection currents convection currents
What is happening to create convection currents in the mantle?
in the asthenosphere, which is in the lower part of the mantle, magma churns in a convection current which is like a cycle. Tectonic plates sit above this movement in the lithosphere. This is what causes continents to move little by little. Hot magma rises and at the lithosphere, it cools and falls because it is now denser. This is like a circular movement, or convection current.
What planets have a rock cycle?
Earth definitely does. Possibly Venus and Mars have (or have had) a rock cycle of some sort, too. However, Venus and Mars lack liquid water and tectonic plates, which are important in Earth's rock cycle. On Earth, the rock types involved in the cycle are igneous (of volcanic origin), sedimentary and metamorphic.
Tectonic cycle consequences?
Tectonic cycle consequences may lead to a formation of new geographical features which might lead to the loss of lives.
How do constructive and destructive forces inside Earth contribute to the rock cycle?
because the earths has magma plates which make them cool.
How these convection's currents cause the crust of the earth to move?
As I'm sure you know if you asked "how," convection currents are the cycle of hotter matter rising, then falling as it cools down. In the earth, as the mantle, which is quite soft/fluid-like, heats near the core, it rises toward the surface - the crust. Near the crust, it is much cooler than the 2520-5400*F mantle, and the matter of the mantle falls. Because the tectonic plates lie on top of the mantle, the movements inside the Earth move the plates as well, causing the tectonic movement that is observed over milennia.
How these convection currents cause the crust of the Earth to move?
As I'm sure you know if you asked "how," convection currents are the cycle of hotter matter rising, then falling as it cools down. In the earth, as the mantle, which is quite soft/fluid-like, heats near the core, it rises toward the surface - the crust. Near the crust, it is much cooler than the 2520-5400*F mantle, and the matter of the mantle falls. Because the tectonic plates lie on top of the mantle, the movements inside the Earth move the plates as well, causing the tectonic movement that is observed over milennia.
