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Tectonic plates float on a layer of the earth called the?
The outer layer of the earth where the land masses are is called the crust
What is the mechanism called that moves or drives the tectonic plates across the surface of the earth?
The way tectonic plates move is by the heat from the core that goes up to the mantle which pushes up the rock and pushes them together to form tectonic plates. Later the tectonic plates slowly go back down until the heat of the core reaches the mantle once again.
What are underground plates called?
Underground plates are called tectonic plates. These plates are large pieces of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other, causing phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
What is it called when 2 tectonic plates separate?
When two tectonic plates separate, it is called seafloor spreading. This process occurs at mid-ocean ridges where new oceanic crust is formed as magma rises from below the Earth's surface and solidifies.
What is the process in which continents slowly move called?
The process in which continents slowly move is called plate tectonics. This movement is caused by the interactions of large sections of the Earth's lithosphere known as tectonic plates. Over time, these plates drift and collide, leading to the formation of mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
The lithosphere is broken into pieces called what?
what causes the earths tectonic plates to move
What is the process called when the mantle pushes plates?
The process is called mantle convection. This is when the heat from Earth's core causes the mantle to slowly flow, creating currents that can push and move the tectonic plates on the Earth's surface.
What natural process caused the Los Angeles earthquake?
The shifting of tectonic plates causes earthquakes.
What drives the process of plate teconics?
Mantle convection causes the tectonic plates of the Earth to move slowly. Mantle convection is when heat moves from the mantle to the surface and causes the mantle, and the tectonic plates to move very slowly.
What are movements of the earth crust and mantle called?
this is called tectonic plates moving, this causes earthquakes and if under water it's called a psunami
What is the process called where earth's plates plunges underneath another?
Tectonic shift
What is the point in earth's interior where the energy released causes an earthquake called?
The Tectonic Plates.
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.
What is stresses in tectonic plates?
Magma moving underneath the earth causes tectonic plates to move about.
When gravity starts to pull tectonic plates into the asthenosphere what is the process called?
Slab Pull.
When gravity starts to pull tectonic plates into the asthenosphere the process is called?
Slab Pull.
When gravity starts to pull tectonic plates into the asthenosphere the process is called what?
Slab Pull.
