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How are plates motions connected with motions within the rest of the earths mantle?
convection currents in the mantle provide the basic driving forces for plate motions.
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What layer in earths mantle do the plates slide over?
The asthenosphere.
The driving forces to tectonic plates are related to convection currents in earths what?
mantle.
What states that the earths lithoshere is broken into huge moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle?
The theory of plate tectonics states that the Earth's lithosphere is divided into several large plates that move over the semi-fluid asthenosphere of the mantle. The motion of these plates is primarily driven by convection currents in the mantle.
What is rigid layer of earths surface made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle?
the Lithosphere or Lithospheric Plates
Why are continents not fixed permanently in location on the earths crust?
The continents are embedded in the top side of crustal plates which float on the surface of the mantle. Convection currents in the mantle carry the plates around and the embedded continents travel along.
How are the plate motions connected with motions within the rest of earth mantle?
Plate motions are driven by convection currents in the Earth's mantle. Heat generated from the core causes mantle material to rise, move laterally, and then sink back down in a cycle. The moving mantle material drags the tectonic plates along with it, influencing their motions and interactions at the surface.
What layer are the plates on?
The worlds tectonic plates slide on the earths mantle.
What layer are the plates sliding on?
The worlds tectonic plates slide on the earths mantle.
What layer in earths mantle do the plates slide over?
The asthenosphere.
What are oceans current are formed by what?
Moving plates in the earths mantle.
How does plate tectonics affect the mantle?
Tectonic Plates float on top of the earths mantle, the earths mantle is made up liquid which is always circulating.
What causes earths plates to move continuously?
Convection in the earth's mantle.
The driving forces to tectonic plates are related to convection currents in earths what?
mantle.
What states that the earths lithoshere is broken into huge moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle?
The theory of plate tectonics states that the Earth's lithosphere is divided into several large plates that move over the semi-fluid asthenosphere of the mantle. The motion of these plates is primarily driven by convection currents in the mantle.
What layers of the earth compose the earths plates?
upper part of the mantle and end of the crust.
How does convection in the earths mantle help shape the geosphere?
It will move the earth's plates so there :)
What do earths tectonic plates do?
The plates (continental and ocean plates) ride atop the asthenosphere, a layer of viscous rock in the upper mantle beneath the crust.
