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The country of China is located within the boundaries of the Eurasian Plate.
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What are 2 causes of earthquake?
earthquakes can be caused by either tectonic or volcanic. Tectonic earthquakes are caused by movement of tectonic plates underneath the earth surface. Volcanic earthquakes are caused by volcanic activities underneath or above earth's surface.
What are the plates that make up Earth's crust?
Tectonic plates
How are continents and tectonic plates related?
The Earth's continents "ride" on its tectonic plates. The plates cover the whole surface of the Earth so that they are underneath both the oceans and the continents. Every plate moves alongside its neighbouring plates, either by sliding underneath or by slipping sideways, so a good way to think of the Earth's tectonic plates is to realize that they they all fit together like a huge jigsaw puzzle in which all the pieces are continually sliding against or under one another.
Why do tectonic plates move against each other?
tectonic plates move against each other essentially because of the movement of molten rock underneath the earth's surface or crust. This movement causes the plates to rub against each other.
What layer moves underneath the techtonic plates?
The aesthenosphere, which is located in the top part of the Earth's mantle is the layer lying underneath the tectonic plates. Collective movement in these plates cause a gradual rise in the aesthenosphere, thereby resulting to land elevation.
What are plates that slide underneath another?
tectonic plates
What is stresses in tectonic plates?
Magma moving underneath the earth causes tectonic plates to move about.
What is found underneath the tectonic plates?
magma
What do the tectonic plates look like?
they are the giant plates underneath all the continents
What is the noun for the movement of one of earth's heavier tectonic plates underneath a lighter tectonic plate?
Subduction.
What are tectonic plates and plate boundaries?
Tectonic plates are plates underneath the ground we stand on that help to form the structure of the earth, when two tectonic plates colide they create terrains such as mountains. they have also been known to cause some Tsunami's.
What is the process called where earth's plates plunges underneath another?
Tectonic shift
When are earthquakes most likely to happen?
When the tectonic plates move underneath the continents.
What is magma and what does it do?
Magma is lava underneath the earth. The tectonic plates of the earth float on it.
Why can tectonic plates move thousand of miles?
Convection Currents created by the mantle underneath! :)
What are 2 causes of earthquake?
earthquakes can be caused by either tectonic or volcanic. Tectonic earthquakes are caused by movement of tectonic plates underneath the earth surface. Volcanic earthquakes are caused by volcanic activities underneath or above earth's surface.
What are the large thin plates that move relative to one another on the outer surface of earth called?
They are called tectonic or lithospheric plates.
