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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 are the moving irregularly shaped slabs that make up the Earth's lithosphere. These plates constantly shift and interact with each other, leading to phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.
What does moving of techtonic plates cause?
Moving of tectonic plates causes earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the formation of mountain ranges when plates collide or pull apart. These movements also contribute to the creation of ocean basins and continents over long periods of time.
What is tectonic earthquake means?
A tectonic earthquake is a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust caused by the movement of tectonic plates. These earthquakes occur at plate boundaries where plates are colliding, sliding past one another, or moving apart. The stress built up from the movement of plates is released in the form of seismic waves, causing the ground to shake.
Earths lithosphere is made of huge pieces of solid rock is called ..?
Lithospheric plates.
What process causes earths plates to move?
The process of 'earth plates moving' is Alfred Wageners theory of continental drift. This theory proposes that convenction currents in the earths mantle provides a 'cushion' on which the plates can move.
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
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 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
What are moving pieces under the earths surface that form the earths crust?
Tectonic plates are the moving pieces under the Earth's surface that form the Earth's crust. These plates float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere and interact with each other through processes like subduction, spreading, and collision, which contribute to the shaping of Earth's surface features.
What do you call the moving irregularly shape slabs that make up the Earths lithosphere?
Tectonic plates.
What force causes the earths plates to stop moving?
The Almighty God.
Are the tectonic plates in the earths inner core?
No the tectonic plates are on top of the crust.
How did the napier earthquake occur?
usually an earthquake occurs because underneath the earths crust are tectonic plates and when they move occasionlly one will get caught but the outside is still moving and that causes an earthquake
What forces below earth surface shape landforms?
The tectonic plates below earths surface shape earths landforms
