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The middle layer of earth that is MANTLE. It has the tectonic plates floating on it.
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What can tectonic plates form when they divide?
When tectonic plates divide they create divergent boundaries, which can cause the earths surface to divide and split up, almost like when you rip a piece of paper
What tectonic plates are in Berlin Germany?
Berlin, like all of Germany, is on the Eurasian Plate.
What is the shrinking earth theory?
There once was a theory that the earths layer was like a skin, they believed that the skin and earth was shrinking but this theory was forgotten after Alfred Wenger realised that the earth was built up of tectonic plates
Are earthquakes all caused by the same thing?
Earthquakes caused due to the movements of the tectonic plates. It can be take even under the sea level in oceanic ridges (which is known as something like a crack on the tectonic plate under the ocean). The lithospheric plates are continuously moving on the asthenospheric layer due to the circulation of convection currents. When the plates are moving, in different different directions they make various kinds of collisions. These collisions also can be divided into several types according to the type of the plates. So when these moving plates collides with each other, earthquakes takes place. So the answer to the questions is simply yes
How can people map tectonic plates?
The earth's tectonic plates are always moveing. So the movement of the plates creates earthquakes and when they separate lets lava spill out and dry. Scientists can locate these movements over hundreds of years and form kind of like a child's game, connect the dots. But just the ones within about 10 to 20 miles.
Which earth layer keep tectonic plates in motion?
Im pretty sure it is the Asthenosphere it is the warming, plastic (moving) like upper mantle.
What do you call the layer of tar like mantle under the tectonic plates?
The asthenosphere.
Continental plates move on the plastic-like layer of Earth's mantle?
Asthenosphere
What happens in asthenosphere?
It's where the plates of the lithosphere move around on, the plastic like layer of the asthenosphere. the plates move around on these
Are tectonic plates round?
no .its like a rectangle
What is the structure of most tectonic plates?
Tectonic plates fit together like a jigsaw puzzel that makes up the earth.
How Pangaea Move?
Well the the molten layer pushed the tectonic plates apart splitting Africa to the South-east and pushing south America to the south-west when the molten layer was pushing the other plates you will see that the Continent's was looking like Today
What are tectonic plates pushed by?
In the mantle, there is a fluid-like layer called the asthenosphere which has convection currents, due to the heat of the inner core. Earth's plates are hypothetically "floating" on the asthenosphere. The currents in this layer push whatever is on top of it, thus the continents move.
What do the tectonic plates look like?
they are the giant plates underneath all the continents
How does the movement of tectonic plates?
The layer of the Earth called the mantle is continuously circulating like rice would in boiling water. This movement under the crust cause the plates to shift moving the plates to create mountains, valleys, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
Do tectonic plates 'float' on the surface of the mantle?
The tectonic plates (the lithosphere) are made of the crust and upper brittle part of the mantle. They 'float' on the hotter and softer mantle below, which is still a solid, but can flow like plasticine (the asthenosphere)
How does plates affect the surface of the surface?
when tectonic plate collides with other tectonic plates or moves into another tectonic plate it affects surface in a way to create mountains. Like Himalayas are created when the indian tectonic plate collided with asian tectonic plate.
