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When land masses on earths crust are moving what is it called?
earthquake
Where is most of the earths new crust found?
Most of Earth's new crust is found along mid-ocean ridges, underwater mountain ranges where tectonic plates are moving apart. This is where magma rises from the mantle to create new crust through volcanic activity.
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 keeps the metals at the center of the earth moving?
The mantle
How do fossils provide evidence for moving plates?
Their evidence comes from rocks at earths surface.
What is the moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle?
The moving portion of Earth's crust and upper mantle is known as the lithosphere. It is broken into tectonic plates that float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere below, causing them to move and interact with each other, which leads to processes like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building.
What are oceans current are formed by what?
Moving plates in the earths mantle.
What would happen to the earths plates if the mantle completely cooled down?
They'd stop moving.
Why is the earths crust always moving?
Simple- Convection in the mantle causes mantle to slowly move, and it pushes against the crust. As it does this, the tectonic plates move.
Which process is currently accepted explanation of the movement of drifting continents?
the convection currents in the mantle under the earths curst is moving the broken plates in earths lithosphere causing the plates slide across the lithosphere. this process is called tectonics. (jon lay wrote this,)
When land masses on earths crust are moving what is it called?
earthquake
What is the activity of the earths moving plate called?
ok i can help u with this, the moving of the techtonic plates is called faulting or fault :]
Where is most of the earths new crust found?
Most of Earth's new crust is found along mid-ocean ridges, underwater mountain ranges where tectonic plates are moving apart. This is where magma rises from the mantle to create new crust through volcanic activity.
What is the name of the process of recycling materials that make up the earths crust and mantle?
Subduction is the process of materials moving back into the earth at the boundary of tectonic plates.
What is the weathering away of the earths surface by wind glaciers and moving water called?
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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.
The idea that Earths lithosphere is divided into large moving sections is called the?
plate tectonic theory
