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Can plated carry continents or parts of the ocean floor but not both?
Tectonic Plates can't carry both ocean floor and continents on the same plate.
What do crustal plates carry?
seafloor
Is thefollowing sentence true o false plates can carry continentes or parts of the ocean floor but noy both?
false
What is things rest upon crustal plates?
The continents and the ocean floor rest upon the plates.
How does the movement of tectonic plates and continents relate?
When the plates drift apart through sea floor spreading, so do the continents
How do plates play a role in Pangaea changing into 7 continents?
Plates play a role in Pangaea changing into 7 continents because there are 7 major plates in the world. These plates are being moved by sea-floor spreading, pulling the continents along with them.
What makes the continent and the ocean floor unstable?
The continents and ocean floor are unstable because the plates of the lithosphere move. When the plate move, they cause the continents and ocean floor to move.
How sea floor spreading provides a mechanism by which continents move?
Sea floor spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges where tectonic plates move apart, allowing magma to rise to the surface, solidify, and form new oceanic crust. As new crust is created, it pushes the existing crust away from the ridge, effectively moving the continents on the plates they sit. This process is part of the theory of plate tectonics, which explains how continents drift and change positions over time.
How does sea-floor spreading provide a way for continents to move?
because if the sea-floor is moving it will probably will move a chunk of land that could be part of a continent the land at the bottom of the ocean is being spread across, and is taking space up. the continents are on tectonic plates, and need to go some where and move away.
What layer of the earth makes up these plates and what layer are these continents sliding on?
The plates on the top of the upper mantle are referred to as the lithosphere, which slides on the asthenosphere.well the mantle causes the continents to move on the ocean floor and sand it makes it slideyea know the crustti is i dont ge ehttt
What layer of the earths make up these plates and what layer are are the continents sliding on?
The plates on the top of the upper mantle are referred to as the lithosphere, which slides on the asthenosphere.well the mantle causes the continents to move on the ocean floor and sand it makes it slideyea know the crustti is i dont ge ehttt
How does sea floor spreading make the continents move?
Under the oceanic crust is the layer of the earth called the mantle. This layer is moving rock that is very, very hot! As the hot material in the mantle pushes up through the crust in the sea floor, it cools and becomes new crust as it pushes out (spreads) the sea floor. This movement in the plates causes other plates (continental and oceanic) to move as well. This is how sea floor spreading causes continents to move.
