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The Lithosphere, which is made up of the entire crust and the upper mantle. This Lithosphere floats on the weak/molten lowwer mantle, called the Asthenosphere.
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Can earthquakes affect plate tectonics?
Earthquakes are really the result of plate tectonics, not the cause. The moving plates touch at their boundaries and then occasionally suddenly slip. The sudden slip are the earthquakes.
Which theory views the earth's surface as composed of slowly moving plates?
Plate tectonics.
Which theory describes the motion of earth's crust on its mantle?
plate tectonics=D
How do volcanoes help plate tectonics?
Volcanoes don't help plate tectonics; volcanoes are the result of plate tectonics.
The idea that Earth's lithosphere is divided into large moving sections is called the?
plate tectonics theory
Are the plate tectonics constantly moving and when they do does it always cause an earthquake?
Plate tectonics are always moving! they usually do have something to do with earthquakes!
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 is the synonym for moving plates?
Plate and Plate Tectonics is th ebest answer
Why did the frontier keep moving west?
plate tectonics
Samilarties and differences between volvano and plate tectonics?
Volcanos are mountains in which lava comes out and plate tectonics is the theory of plates moving.
What does understanding plate tectonics?
plate tectonics is the movement of the oceanic and the continental crust that is moving our continents further apart or more together.
How are the plate tectonics causing your earth to change?
they are always moving
The theory that the continents and sections of the lithosphere are moving?
plate tectonics.
Are plate tectonics moving a type of seismic activity?
YES.
Why does plate tectonics take place?
because of the plates moving
What causes an earthquake's vibrations?
The shifting of plate tectonics moving by eachother.
What are the moving plates of the earth crust called?
They are called plate tectonics.
