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The Eurasian and Pacific plates collide into the Indian and Australian plates, also known as Indo-Australian plate.
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How are trench and mountains formed?
Mountains are created when the tectonic plates collide, and one plate slides under the other, lifting it.
What forms when continents colide?
Continents collide when tectonic plates collide. For example, let's look at Europe and Africa. Europe is located on the Eurasian Plate while Africa is located on the African Plate. The African Plate is currently colliding with the Eurasian Plate. In the future, this will cause the Mediterranean Sea to disappear and the Mediterranean Mountains will form. When continents collide, mountains are usually formed. In addition, they form a new connected landmass. Tectonic plates can also scrape against each other, which causes an earthquake.
What is it called when two plates hit each other?
When two tectonic plates meet, we get a "plateboundary." There are three major types of plate boundaries. If two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary. Usually, one of the convergingplateswill move beneath the other, which is known as subduction.
Is the crust made out of tectonic plates?
Yes, it is made of tectonic plates and those plates have names e.g. Indo Australian plate, Eurasion plate
What is the difference between plate tectonics and tectonic plate?
There are two types of tectonic plates:oceanic plates, thin and dense composed mostly of basalt rockcrustal plates, thick and light composed mostly of granite rock
What it is call when Tectonic plates collide?
convergence
When can a convergent plate movement take place?
When two tectonic plates collide
What tectonic plates are colliding?
The movement or action of the plate determines what type it is. When two plates collide, they are creating a convergent boundary. Therefore you could state that they are convergent (or colliding) tectonic plates.
What is the type of tectonic plate boundary that forms from a collision between two tectonic plates?
Volcanic mountains over hot spots in the mantle. Fault-block
What land form is created by tectonic plates crashing together?
this depends on the two plates that collide. Ocean plates are much heavier than continental plates. If an ocean and continental plate collide, the ocean plate sinks underneath and creates a trench. If two ocean plates or two continental plate collide, it creates a mountain range/ oceanic ridge depending on the type.
What causes an earthquake and how you know weather it is likely to happen in a particular location?
It is when two tectonic plates collide and they rubs, this causes the rubble which you get from the earthquake. You only get earthquakes if your country is in between a tectonic plate or on the tectonic plate.
How are trench and mountains formed?
Mountains are created when the tectonic plates collide, and one plate slides under the other, lifting it.
What will happen when stress builds up in a tectonic plate and the plates collide?
When that happens a earthquake is produced.
What is the relation between tectonic plates and mountains?
Mountains are formed by plae tectonics. It happens when 2 plates collide and 1 plate is pushed up. The resulting upwards force makes a mountain range. The Rockies, Andes, and the Himalayas are all examples of this.
What does convergent bounderies mean?
Convergent boundaries are tectonic plate boundaries, where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another.
What is the difference between plate tectonic and tectonic plate?
Plate Tectonics is the process by by which the earth's tectonic plates move.
Why do mountains form when earths plates collide?
One plate tectonic, or fragment, is pushed underneath another plate which causes the other one to go nowhere else but up.
