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Plates either move towards each other (convergent plates), away from each other (divergent plates) or slide next to each other (transform plates).

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What are three ways plates move?

Plates move through seafloor spreading, where new oceanic crust is created at mid-ocean ridges and pushes existing plates apart. Another way is through subduction, where one plate slides beneath another due to differences in density. Plates can also move horizontally past each other at transform boundaries.


Name the 3 ways that plates move along a fault in earth and explain the difference between them?

Plates move along a fault through transform boundaries, where they slide past each other horizontally. Plates can also move through divergent boundaries, where they move away from each other. Lastly, plates can move along convergent boundaries, where they collide and push against each other, leading to subduction or mountain formation.


What are the three types of boundaries between lithospheric plates?

Divergent - when two plates pull away from each other. Convergent - Also known as subduction zones, where volcanoes and mountains are often found, crust is destroyed and recycled back into the Earth's interior as one plate goes under another. Oceanic-Continental - An oceanic plate will push against a continental plate and is subducted under it.


Were do continents move?

Continents move due to the process of plate tectonics, where the Earth's outer shell is divided into several large, rigid plates that float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere beneath them. These plates can move and interact with each other, resulting in phenomena like the drifting of continents, earthquakes, and volcanic activity.


How were the landmasses split into separate continents?

Continents are basically floating on their own tectonic plates. They collide into one another, separate from one another, etc. So if they separate, the plates are basically moving in opposing directions.

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How do tectonic plates move at a transform boundary?

At transform boundaries, the plates move horizontal in relation to each other.


What is a converging bounderies?

In tectonics, plates below the Earth's surface can move three different ways: they can shear, converge, and diverge in relation to one another. When two plates slide along the edges of one another, they are said to shear against one another, as shown below: <=====> This movement leaves vast open space between the two plates, with the Great Rift Valley as an example.


How fast do the plates move in the relation to each other year?

The earth's plates move slowly because how big the earthquake is he bigger the amount the plates will move and the slower the earthquake is the less it moves.


How fast do the plates move in relation to each other each year?

The earth's plates move slowly because how big the earthquake is he bigger the amount the plates will move and the slower the earthquake is the less it moves.


About how fast do the plates move in relation to each others each year?

The earth's plates move slowly because how big the earthquake is he bigger the amount the plates will move and the slower the earthquake is the less it moves.


What are three ways plates move?

Plates move through seafloor spreading, where new oceanic crust is created at mid-ocean ridges and pushes existing plates apart. Another way is through subduction, where one plate slides beneath another due to differences in density. Plates can also move horizontally past each other at transform boundaries.


When plates move under one another it is known as?

Subduction Plates


Do convergent plates move away from each other?

they move against one another


What is Another Name For The Plates That Move Around?

If you mean for the plates that are the earth's crust they are called 'Tectonic Plates'.


What are the three ways boundaries interact?

convergent boundaries: plates move together divergent boundaries: plates move apart transform boundaries: plates move against each other


Boundary between two plates that are moving apart?

Convergent: plates move into one another.Divergent: plates move apart.Transform: plates move sideways in relation to each other.


What are three types of plate movements and what do they look like?

First one is divergent where 2 plates move apart Second one is convergent where 2 plates move together Third one is transform where 2 plates slide past or grind past one another