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When two plates slide apart from each other, it is known as divergent boundaries. As the continent splits, a ridge forms at the spreading center, stretches the ocean basin, causing it to expand and the plate area increases causing many small volcanoes or light earthquakes.

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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 are the plates called that make up the Earth's crust?

The plates that make up the Earth's crust are called tectonic plates. These plates float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere underneath and interact with each other at plate boundaries, causing various geological phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.


How do the tectonic plates move and interact with each other?

Tectonic plates move and interact with each other due to the Earth's internal heat causing convection currents in the mantle. This movement leads to the plates either colliding, pulling apart, or sliding past each other, which can result in earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the formation of mountains and oceanic trenches.


What do you call the pieces of the Earth's crust?

The pieces of the Earth's crust are called tectonic plates. These plates float on the semi-fluid layer of the Earth's mantle and interact with each other, causing movements such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.


What is broken into sections called plates which float on top of the crust?

The Earth's outer layer, or lithosphere, is broken into sections called tectonic plates. These plates float on top of the semi-fluid asthenosphere beneath them and interact with each other at plate boundaries, causing movements such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.

Related Questions

How rift zones form?

they are formed by two tectonic plates pulling away from each other


What is a set of cracks that forms when two tectonic plates are pulling away from each other known as?

Divergent Plate Boundary. A Rift Valley forms between the two plates.


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 two tectonic plates pushes into each other?

Convergent Boundary


When two tectonic plates push into each other the place the two plates meet is what?

They are called a Plate Boundaries :)


What are the plates called that make up the Earth's crust?

The plates that make up the Earth's crust are called tectonic plates. These plates float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere underneath and interact with each other at plate boundaries, causing various geological phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.


Sets of deep cracks that form between two tectonic plates that are pulling away from each other are known as what?

Mid-ocean ridges


What is the force that pulls apart the crust called?

The force that pulls apart the crust is called tensional or extensional tectonic stress, which occurs at divergent plate boundaries where tectonic plates move away from each other. This pulling force can lead to the formation of rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges.


What is a plate called that slide past each other?

I believe that you are thinking of tectonic plates.


Where 2 plates moved apart from each other are called?

I'm guessing you're talking about the tectonic plates? Divergence.


How do the tectonic plates move and interact with each other?

Tectonic plates move and interact with each other due to the Earth's internal heat causing convection currents in the mantle. This movement leads to the plates either colliding, pulling apart, or sliding past each other, which can result in earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the formation of mountains and oceanic trenches.


What is called when sea-floor spreading occurs and pull away from each other under the sea?

It creates a mid ocean ridge, the two plates pulling apart is called a divergent boundary.