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What causes the moving of the tectonic plates under the earth's crust?
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As a result of subduction, the continental crust becomes more compressed and warped by the huge pressures between these two plates. The stressed causes the rock to deform or change shape by bending. Energy was stored in the deformed areas in the form of elastic potential energy, much like when a spring is compressed. When the stress becomes greater then the breaking strength of the rock, a break occurs in the fault. The stored energy within the misshapen plate is suddenly released. When the stress is relieved,that is when when the tectonic plates begin to move under the earths crust.
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What do you call the moving irregularly shaped slabs that make up the earths lithosphere?
Tectonic plates.
What are tectonic plantes?
Tectonic plates are plates that float on the earths mantle. There are 8 major tectonic plates on the earth and at the joints of these many earthquakes seem to occur.
The earths surface is broken into large pieces what are they called?
Tectonic Plates
What are two ways the movement of earths plates changes the earths surface?
Its Tectonic Activity
Large crustal plates moving on the earth's surface are?
Tectonic plates.
What are moving pieces under the earths surface that form the earths crust?
The answer is tectonic plates floating on the lithosphere. Does that answer your question? LOL :)
What is stresses in tectonic plates?
Magma moving underneath the earth causes tectonic plates to move about.
What are most earthquakes cause by?
moving tectonic plates on earths surface
What causes earths changes to earths landforms?
the tectonic platesthe tectonic plates can be move to be far and near to each other
The lithosphere is broken into pieces called what?
what causes the earths tectonic plates to move
What causes earthquake at diversion boundaries?
moving of tectonic plates (lithospheric plates)
What makes an earthquake to create a volcano that make it erupt?
the moving of the tectonic plates which makes the earths surface unstable which then causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Why is the earths crust always moving?
Simple- Convection in the mantle causes mantle to slowly move, and it pushes against the crust. As it does this, the tectonic plates move.
What do you call the moving irregularly shaped slabs that make up the earths lithosphere?
Tectonic plates.
What do you call the moving irregularly shape slabs that make up the Earths lithosphere?
Tectonic plates.
What is the difference between a tectonic hazard and a tectonic event?
a tectonic hazard is a disaster caused by the moving of tectonic plates.....anda tectonic activity is the moving of tectonic plates........
Are the tectonic plates in the earths inner core?
No the tectonic plates are on top of the crust.
