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What is subduction?
the process by which collision of the earth's crustal plates results in one plate's being drawn down or overridden by another, localized along the juncture (subduction zone) of two plates.
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What is a subduction zone and what types of plate boundaries have subduction zones?
In plate tectonics, when two tectonic plates move toward each other, it results in the formation of what is called a convergent plate boundary. The two plates are said to converge. One plate may be...
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What is the process of subduction?
Where one plate is pushed downward beneath another plate into the underlying mantle when plates move towards each other..=)
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Why is subduction necessary?
Because if there wasn't subduction the earth would get bigger and bigger caused by sea floor spreading (in the ocean new ground is formed when two plates spread apart) and lava comes up and cools...
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What does a vector involve?
A vector is a two part quantity. A vector includes both a magnitude (often a distance or a force) and a direction that the magnitude is in.
Most of the population deals with scalar quantites, such...