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The mid-ocean ridge is a crucial feature of plate tectonics, serving as a divergent boundary where tectonic plates move apart, allowing magma to rise and create new oceanic crust. This process contributes to seafloor spreading, which is fundamental to the movement of tectonic plates. The term "tangia" seems to be a typographical error or a miscommunication, as it doesn't directly relate to plate tectonics; however, if you meant "tension," it refers to the stress that occurs at divergent boundaries, further driving the separation of plates at mid-ocean ridges. Overall, these geological features illustrate the dynamic nature of Earth's lithosphere.
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How plate tectonics affect climate?
by changing ocean circulation
How do plate tectonics affect the ocean floor?
They change its size and shape.
How do plate tectonics explains mudslides tornadoes ocean currents and trenches?
Plate tectonic only directly explains ocean trenches. An ocean trench forms when an oceanic plate collides with another plate and slides under it. Mudslides are most likely to occur in in hilly or mountainous areas. Most mountains have been formed by tectonic activity. Ocean currents are influenced by climate and the arrangement of the continents. While plate tectonics does change the positions of the continents, it does not directly affect climate. Tornadoes have nothing to do with plate tectonics; they are weather events.
What do plate tectonics have to do with sinkholes?
Singholes generaly do not relate to plate tectonics. In most cases sinkholes result from the removal of underground material, which eventually cause the ground above to collapse into the space left behind. This is most often a result of weathering.
Do plate tectonics effect el nino?
Plate tectonics can indirectly influence El Niño events by affecting the underwater topography that can alter ocean currents. However, the direct relationship between plate tectonics and El Niño is not well understood, as El Niño is primarily driven by changes in ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific.
How do you plates tectonics and the theory of plate tectonics relate?
They are the same thing.
How do plate tectonics cause ocean basins?
the earth.
Where does plate tectonics situated in layer of ocean?
earthquakes and volcanoes
How plate tectonics affect climate?
by changing ocean circulation
How do plate tectonics affect the ocean floor?
They change its size and shape.
Who created the southern ocean?
April 21, 2009
How do plate tectonics explains mudslides tornadoes ocean currents and trenches?
Plate tectonic only directly explains ocean trenches. An ocean trench forms when an oceanic plate collides with another plate and slides under it. Mudslides are most likely to occur in in hilly or mountainous areas. Most mountains have been formed by tectonic activity. Ocean currents are influenced by climate and the arrangement of the continents. While plate tectonics does change the positions of the continents, it does not directly affect climate. Tornadoes have nothing to do with plate tectonics; they are weather events.
What sea is expanding because of plate tectonics?
The Atlantic Ocean is expanding. Plate tectonics are driving the eastern New World and the western Old World farther apart.
Define and relate the following to the plate tectonics theory?
There are 2 tectonics theories namely: divergent boundary and subduction zone. The boundary of the plate tectonics where two plates are placed is called divergent boundary while the subduction zone is a convergent boundary where in one plate is subducted on another.
Plate tectonics change climates by changing the ocean currents?
latitude of land
What causes earthquakes volcanoes trenches mid-ocean ridge?
Plate tectonics.
Why isn't the ocean floor a flat surface?
Plate Tectonics, to put it simply.
