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What type of motion happens when tectonic plates slip by each other?
friction
What happens when a tectonic plate moves rapidly?
Usually an earthquake occurs.
What drives the process of plate teconics?
Mantle convection causes the tectonic plates of the Earth to move slowly. Mantle convection is when heat moves from the mantle to the surface and causes the mantle, and the tectonic plates to move very slowly.
What are the large thin plates that move relative to one another on the outer surface of earth called?
They are called tectonic or lithospheric plates.
What happens when two tectonic plates move apart?
Magma seeps up through the two plates from the mantle and form volcanos.
What layer moves at tectonic plates?
The lithosphere is the layer that moves with the tectonic plates. The lithosphere is made up of the crust and the upper part of the mantle, and it is broken into tectonic plates that move and interact with each other.
How do tectonic plates cause contenitial drift?
Because tectonic plates move, therefore if the continent is on it, it moves with it!
What happens when tectonic plates suddenly move?
An Earthquake happens.
What moves the ocean floor?
the tectonic plates under the earths surface
What does the earths crust consist of that moves?
Those would be tectonic plates.
The large thin plates that moves relative to one another on the outer surface of the earth?
Tectonic plates.
What moves at 0.0820 yards per year?
This is a guess: Earth's tectonic plates.
How does plates affect the surface of the surface?
when tectonic plate collides with other tectonic plates or moves into another tectonic plate it affects surface in a way to create mountains. Like Himalayas are created when the indian tectonic plate collided with asian tectonic plate.
What allows the tectonic plates in the lithosphere to move?
the hot magma moves around and they move.
What happens where tectonic plates move part?
An earthquake. But while this happens the magma fills the gap.
Are tectonic plates moving faster because of climate change?
Think logic, How does Plates move? The Magma inside the earth moves the plates. So, No it don't.
Do convection currents in the oceans cause tectonic plates to move?
No, convection currents in the mantle are the primary driving force behind the movement of tectonic plates. These currents are generated by heat from the Earth's core, causing movement in the mantle that in turn drags and moves the overlying tectonic plates.
