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What layer moves at tectonic plates?
The lithosphere is the layer that moves with the tectonic plates. The lithosphere is made up of the crust and the upper part of the mantle, and it is broken into tectonic plates that move and interact with each other.
What mechanism moves lithospheric plates?
The movement of lithospheric plates is primarily driven by the process of plate tectonics. This movement is caused by the heat-driven convection currents in the Earth's mantle. As these currents circulate, they drag the overlying lithospheric plates along with them, causing the plates to move over time.
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.
I am part of lithosphere but you move around on top of the asthenosphere?
You are part of the rigid outer shell of the Earth known as the lithosphere. The lithosphere floats and moves on the semi-fluid layer beneath it called the asthenosphere due to plate tectonics. This movement of the lithospheric plates atop the asthenosphere is responsible for phenomena like earthquakes and volcanic activity.
What forms when the lithospheric plates rub against each other?
well in a volcano the lithospheric plates meet when magma moves and moves at the bottom and in the magma chamber the lava[magma] is moving around the lithospheric plates thats what forms them but what forms when they rub against each other is a volcanic eruption
What moves the lithosphere plates?
the earth
How do spreading boundaries plates move?
it moves
What layer moves at tectonic plates?
The lithosphere is the layer that moves with the tectonic plates. The lithosphere is made up of the crust and the upper part of the mantle, and it is broken into tectonic plates that move and interact with each other.
What direction do plates go for each?
The Pacific Plate moves northwest, the North American Plate moves southwest, the Eurasian Plate moves southward, the African Plate moves northward, and the South American Plate moves westward.
A piece of the earth's crust that moves around?
plates
What moves Earth's tetonic plates?
the upper mantle
What plates moves the fastest?
The Pacific and Cocos plate.
What is the name of the force that moves rock plates past each other what moves them?
Techtonic I think
How do tectonic plates cause contenitial drift?
Because tectonic plates move, therefore if the continent is on it, it moves with it!
The large thin plates that moves relative to one another on the outer surface of the earth?
Tectonic plates.
What they form when the plates moves slowly?
trenches or mountains or rift valleys or faults depends which direction the plates move
Are tectonic plates moving faster because of climate change?
Think logic, How does Plates move? The Magma inside the earth moves the plates. So, No it don't.
