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What do we call a measure of height above earths surface?
Height above earths surface is called elevation
What name is given to slipping or sliding surface of parts of the earths surface?
The slipping or sliding surface of parts of the Earth's surface is known as a fault line. This is where movement occurs along the surface of the Earth, resulting in earthquakes.
Large section of earths crust that moves as one unit?
Plate
What is the name of earths surface layer?
The Earth's surface layer is called the crust.
What are two ways the movement of earths plates changes the earths surface?
The movement of Earth's plates can create geological features like mountains and volcanoes through processes such as subduction and continental collision. It can also lead to earthquakes when plates shift along faults in the Earth's crust.
What forces below earth surface shape landforms?
The tectonic plates below earths surface shape earths landforms
Why you have an earthquake?
the tectonic plates are shifting under the earths surface.
What moves the ocean floor?
the tectonic plates under the earths surface
What are most earthquakes cause by?
moving tectonic plates on earths surface
Do tectonic plates cover the earths entire surface?
94% of the earth. yes
What processes do scientist infer to have shaped earths surface in the past?
The shifting of Tectonic Plates.
How do covergent boundary plates affect earths surface?
The tectonic plates combined together
What causes volcanoes to erupt under earths surface?
mostly earthquakes or plate tectonic movement.
What causes earths changes to earths landforms?
the tectonic platesthe tectonic plates can be move to be far and near to each other
How much of earths oceans cover earths surface?
70% or 80% of water covers the earths surface
Where do earthquakes usually occurr?
Earthquakes ussually occur near the tectonic plates which cover the earths surface.
What percent of the earths surface is the US?
100
