where are tectonic plates
Where are tectonic plates found in the earth?
Lithosphere
What kind of boundaries do they move at?
Divergent, convergent, and transform
caused by convection currents in the molten rock in Earth's mantle below the crust.
What are tectonic plates?
A massive irregularly shaped slab of solid rock.
Do they stay in the same place?
NOOOOO!!
How do they move?
Convection currents
What could the movement of plates tectonic cause?
Earthquakes and volcanoes are the short-term results of this tectonic movement.
What do tectonic plates do?
They move, they create mountains, and natural disasters.
True or False tectonic plates can sometimes not be in the lithosphere.
False
What kind of boundary makes mountains?
Convergent
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
Major land forms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements.
What do tectonics plate create?
Deep ocean tranches, volcanoes, island arcs, submarine mountain ranges, and fault lines.
Why are the plate tectonics hot?
The heat that fuels the hot spot comes from very deep in the planet.
What kind of boundary creates mid ocean ridges?
Divergent plate boundary.
Name three types of plate boundaries
Divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries.
What created tectonic plates?
Cooler parts of Earth's crust were pulled downwards into the warmer upper mantle, damaging and weakening the surrounding crust.
What is the lithosphere made of?
Made up of the crust and upper mantle.
What do mid ocean ridges do?
Occur along the kind of plate boundary where new ocean floor is created as the plates spread apart.
Examples of plate tectonics
Earthquakes and volcanoes are the short-term results of this tectonics movement.
About how thick are tectonic plates? (km)
125km thick