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What is it called when two plates cause a volcanic eruption?
Plate tectonics
The difference between plate boundaries and plate tectonics -?
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's surface is broken up into huge, slow-moving slabs called tectonic plates. The movement of these plates drives many geologic processes including most earthquakes and volcanoes. Plate boundaries are the areas where two tectonic plates meet.
Which two factors are most important to the existence of plate tectonics on Earth?
The two most important factors contributing to plate tectonics on Earth are the movement of convection currents within the mantle and the internal heat generated by radioactive decay in Earth's core. These forces drive the motion of the lithospheric plates, causing them to move and interact at plate boundaries.
What are the Effects of plate tectonics?
Plate tectonics can cause a number of things. This includes earthquakes when two plates grind together. Earthquakes occur along fault lines, which is why California gets a lot of earthquakes. It is along the San Andreas Fault. Plate tectonics can also cause mountains or volcanoes when one plate goes under another one. That is still happening in most mountain ranges, which is why Mount Everest grows a bit each year. Islands can also occur, but I don't know the specifics.
What are the two tectonics plates in California?
The Southern part of California is on the Pacific plate and the Northern part of California is on the North American plate.
How can you define plate tectonics not plate tectonics theory?
But plate tectonics is the theory which suggests that the Earth's crust is made up of solid plates moving relative to each other. Plate tectonics and the plate tectonics theory aren't really two separate things. However plates are pieces of the Earth's crust which are moving.
What are two bad things that can happen as a result of plate tectonics how did plate tectonics cause these events?
Tidal waves, Earthquakes, landslides
What is it called when two plates cause a volcanic eruption?
Plate tectonics
How does continental drift support plate tectonics?
continental drift and plate tectonics are two side of a coin. As the continents are interlinked with the plates; so as the plate moved due to conviction current the continents also tends to move causing continental drift. Moment of plates due to conviction current or due to the adjacent plate is called plate tectonics.
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.
In what two ways is the plate tectonics theory different from the idea of continental drift?
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What were the two plate tectonics that formed the ring of fire?
There are more than two plates involved in the ring of fire.
In what two ways is the plate tectonics theory different from the ideas of continental drift?
The plate tectonics theory includes the concept of sea-floor spreading, which explains how new oceanic crust is created at mid-ocean ridges. It also incorporates the idea of subduction zones, where one tectonic plate moves beneath another into the mantle. These concepts were not part of Alfred Wegener's original theory of continental drift.
What is fact about plate tectonics?
An ancient ocean (Tethys Sea), opened to split Pangea in two.
Where do two plates most often move past each other?
I think it is plate tectonics
What two crusts do plate tectonics have?
The Earth's lithosphere is divided into two types of crust: continental crust, which is thicker and less dense, and oceanic crust, which is thinner and more dense. The movement of these two types of crust against each other is what drives the process of plate tectonics on Earth.
Where do plate tectonics meet?
two tectonic plates meet usually at mid ocean ridges (eg Iceland) and at destructive plate boundaries (eg Japan).
