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How are convergent plate margins characterized?
Convergent plate margins are characterized as collision zones between plates and may involve continental to continental crust, continental to oceanic crust, or oceanic to oceanic crust. Those that involve oceanic crust result in subduction of the more dense plate into the Earth's mantle. Continental to continental plate collisions result in uplift of the surface features and mountain building and the margin may eventually become welded together.
What is the definition of plate margin?
A plate margin is the boundary where two tectonic plates meet. These margins can be divergent (moving apart), convergent (moving together), or transform (moving past each other).Plate margins are dynamic areas where geological activities like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions often occur.
The theory that continents move apart from each other?
Continents are not tecnically moving 'away' from each other, they are just moving. This is due to the sub continent plates and the volcanic activity in the ocean. As new volcanic matter from the earths core comes to the surface it pushes continental plates apart.
Continents are moving across the Earths Surface under continental drift One continent is moving significantly more slowly than the others Which one is it?
The continent that is moving significantly more slowly than the others is Antarctica. It has been described as the slowest moving continent due to its unique position and the way it is situated on the Earth's surface.
When a fast moving polar continental air mass takes over a slow moving Atlantic maritime tropical air mass what front forms?
When a fast moving polar continental air mass overtakes a slow moving Atlantic maritime tropical air mass, a cold front forms. The cold front occurs at the boundary where the denser, colder air replaces the warmer air, lifting the warm air and leading to the potential for thunderstorms and heavy precipitation.
What are plates moving toward each other?
Plates that move toasted each other are detractive plates meeting at a destructive margin. If a continental and an oceanic plate move towards each other, earthquakes and volcanoes occur, this is called a subduction margin, but if the plates are both continental then fold mountains form this is a collision margin
What boundary is it called when an oceanic plate descends beneath a continental plate?
It's called destructive plate margin/boundary, or convergent plate margin though this term applies to all plate margins where two plates are moving towards each other (such as continental + continental or oceanic + oceanic).
Do the continental plates remain in one place?
No, both the continental and oceanic plates are always moving. Moving slowly, but always moving.
What is a subduction zon as it relates to earth science?
A subduction zone is a place at the margin of a continent where the neighbouring oceanic plate is 'subducted'. That is, the oceanic plate, moving toward the continental plate, goes down into the mantle because it is heavier than the continental plate. Subduction zones typically cause deep ocean trenches.
Where is there a continental continental boundary on earth?
The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau are formed by a continental-continental boundary where the Indian continental plate is moving north against the Eurasian continental plate.
How are continental tropical and continental polar air masses alike?
because the air is moving
What 2 words mean continents moving?
Continental drift
Is it We're moving or We are moving?
Both are correct. We are moving is a little bit more formal then we're moving.
What two main names do you give to the moving plates?
continental and the oceanic.
How are convergent plate margins characterized?
Convergent plate margins are characterized as collision zones between plates and may involve continental to continental crust, continental to oceanic crust, or oceanic to oceanic crust. Those that involve oceanic crust result in subduction of the more dense plate into the Earth's mantle. Continental to continental plate collisions result in uplift of the surface features and mountain building and the margin may eventually become welded together.
What is the definition of plate margin?
A plate margin is the boundary where two tectonic plates meet. These margins can be divergent (moving apart), convergent (moving together), or transform (moving past each other).Plate margins are dynamic areas where geological activities like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions often occur.
What geographic features did people encounter moving west?
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