0
What else can I help you with?
Where are the plate boundries?
The Pacific Ring of Fire and the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
What are examples of plate boundary?
Mid-Atlantic Ridge and East Pacific Rise
The Pacific Ocean is shrinking while the Atlantic Ocean is expanding Which type of plate boundary must be involved in each location?
The Pacific Ocean is shrinking due to subduction, where one tectonic plate is being forced beneath another. This occurs at convergent plate boundaries where plates are moving towards each other. The Atlantic Ocean is expanding due to seafloor spreading, which happens at divergent plate boundaries where plates are moving away from each other, creating new oceanic crust.
Where are the most of the Earth's volcanoes?
around the Pacific Ring of Fire. or the Pacific Plate
What direction is the afrian plate moving?
It is moving to the west. As is the north American plate which will make the Atlantic Ocean bigger and the Pacific ocean smaller.
What do you call the plate America is on?
The plate that America sits on is called the North American Plate. It is a tectonic plate that includes North America, most of the Caribbean, and parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Why is the pacific ocean slowly getting smaller?
The reason the Pacific Ocean is shrinking is because of the deep water trenches there, while the Atlantic ocean is getting bigger. In about 500 million years the Pacific will not be there and the Atlantic will be overflowing.
What two plates are moving away from each other?
1. Pacific Plate and North American Plate 2. China Plate and Pacific Plate 3. Australian Plate and Pacific Plate 4. South American Plate and Nazca Plate 5. Eurasian Plate and African Plate 6. Eurasian Plate and Arabian Plate 7. Eurasian Plate and Australian PLATE 8. Scotia Plate and Antarctic Plate
Is the Atlantic bigger or smaller?
The Atlantic is getting bigger as the Eurasian and American plates move further away from each other. The Pacific is getting smaller which can be seen most easily in San Francisco where the large amount of earthquakes are due to the pacific plate being pushed underneath the American plate.
How does the ridge-rift in the pacific ocean differ from that in the Atlantic ocean?
Pacific ocean is shrinking due to plate tectonics while Atlantic is increasing in size. Looked up the same question just now for a final tomorrow.
Which two tectonic plates are separated by the midocean ridge?
The mid ocean ridge separates many plates, not just two. In the Atlantic Ocean it separates the Eurasian and African plates from the North American Plate and the African Plate from the South American Plate. In the Indian Ocean it separates the African Plate from the Antarctic, Australian, Indian Plates and the Australian Plate from the Antarctic Plate. In the Red Sea it separates the African Plate from the Arabian Plate. In the Pacific Ocean it separates the Pacific Plate from the Antarctic, Nazca, Cocos, and Juan de Fuca Plates and the Nazca Plate from the Cocos and Antarctic Plates.
The East Pacific Rise separates the Nazca Plate from the?
The East Pacific Rise separates the Nazca Plate from the Pacific Plate.
