Description : What layers form Earth's rigid mobile tectonic plates?
Last Answer : The lithosphere.
Description : Which of the following is the approximate ratio of the area of the continents to the area of the earth's oceans? w) 2:1 x) 1:1 y) 2:5 z) 1:10
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 2:5
Description : Are all tectonic plates located at earth's core?
Last Answer : No tectonic plates are in or even near the earth's core!The tectonic plates are fragments of the earth's crust.At subduction zones the edge of the subducting tectonic platedescends as much as a few hundred miles down into the earth'smantle before melting and becoming part of the mantle.
Description : What is the theory of earth's tectonic plates about?
Last Answer : How the continents shift position on the Earth's surface.
Description : The earth crust is made up of huge slabs, which are called a) Crust b) Plates c) Rock d) Magma
Last Answer : b) Plates
Description : What is a tectonic process process that forces rocks up from beneath earths surface?
Last Answer : Need answer
Description : Do Earth's continents gain or lose water, considering evaporation and precipitation together and how much?
Last Answer : Plants consume water, in exchange we get oxygen. So the water levels are never the same I'd think.
Description : Do Earth's oceans gain or lose water considering evaporation and precipitation together and how much is the difference?
Last Answer : On average, if the climate remains stable the two processes balance out. During periods of cold, water gets locked up in the ice caps and the level of the ocean drops.
Description : The coastal part of water bodies of the oceans which is structurally part of the mainland of the continents is called – (1) Isthumus (2) oceanic ridge (3) continental shelf (4) continental slope
Last Answer : (3) continental shelf Explanation: The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain. The shelf usually ends at a point of increasing slope (called the shelf break). The sea floor below the break is the continental slope.
Description : The coastal part of water bodies of the oceans which is structurally part of the mainland of the continents is called the- (1) Isthmus (2) Oceanic ridge (3) Continental shelf (4) Continental slope
Last Answer : (3) Continental shelf Explanation: The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain. The shelf usually ends at a point of increasing slope (called the ... slope is the continental rise, which finally merges into the deep ocean floor the abyssal plain.
Description : The coastal part of water bodies of the oceans which is structurally part of the mainland of the continents is called (1) isthumus (2) oceanic ridge (3) continental shelf (4) continental slope
Last Answer : continental shelf
Description : The coastal part of water bodies of the oceans which is structurally part of the mainland of the continents is called the (1) Isthmus (2) Oceanic ridge (3) Continental shelf (4) Continental slope
Last Answer : Continental shelf
Description : Which of the following features is likely to form where two tectonic plates push toward each other?
Last Answer : Mxkels
Description : How do tectonic plates form volcanoes?
Last Answer : ...
Description : Air over the oceans is colder in summer and warmer in winter compared with air over the continental regions. This is because (a) Water is translucent and has a relatively high heat capacity compared ... B are true (e) The effect is due to the changes in circulation between continents and oceans
Last Answer : (d) Both A and B are true
Description : what is the area where two tectonic plates meets called?
Last Answer : the answer is a rift zone
Description : The borders, or cracks, between tectonic plates are called ________.?
Last Answer : not sure
Description : Why do earthquake causing fault lines shift or tectonic plates move at all?
Last Answer : Red hot magma.
Description : If you wanted to trace the creation of tectonic plates using magnetic bands of normal and reversed polarity your best place to measure the magnetic stripes would be?
Last Answer : I need help
Description : What is a result of gravity in relation to tectonic plates?
Description : What effect does tectonic plates have on organic evolution?
Last Answer : The climate because the shifting of tectonic plates will createmountains and vallies overtime, affecting organic evolution.
Description : What is movement caused by the release of stored energy as tectonic plates shift and slide past one another is?
Last Answer : Feel Free to Answer
Description : What is the hypothesis scientists use to explain the movement of tectonic plates?
Last Answer : What is the answer ?
Description : What hypothesis do science tests used to explain the movement of tectonic plates?
Description : Why are volcanoes mostly on tectonic plates?
Description : Do Tectonic Plates move one mile each year?
Last Answer : The majority of the research shows that the plates move at theaverage rate of between approximately 0.60 cm/yr to 10 cm/yr. Somesources state that in the North Atlantic, the rate of movement isonly about 1 ... almost 2 in) annually, while others saythat plates, in general, travel from 5 to 10 cm/yr.
Description : How do earth tectonic plates move?
Last Answer : Earth's plates are constantly in motion because of convectioncurrents in the mantle. How this energy translates to individualplates is still not understood.(see the related question)
Description : How the movement of tectonic plates result in the formation of crustal features?
Last Answer : Magma is the molten rock below the crust, in the mantle. Tremendous heat and pressure within the earth cause the hot magma to flow in convection currents. These currents cause the movement of the tectonic plates that make up the earth's crust.
Description : Why do tectonic plates move slowly?
Last Answer : because they are floating on top of a liquid mantle
Description : Is Earth the only planet with tectonic plates?
Last Answer : Not a professional, but I believe that planets with molten cores and semi-molten mantles are the ones that tend to have tectonic plates. As for active, I wont try to tell you because I don't know enough.
Description : The tectonic plates on which India and the adjacen portion of Asia ride are colliding at a rate of: w) 1-10 millimeters per year x) 1-10 centimeters per year y) 1-10 meters per year z) 1-10 decimeters per year
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- 1-10 CENTIMETERS PER YEAR
Description : Iceland has a great deal of volcanic activity. The reason for this is: w) it was formed above a mid-ocean rift. x) it is part of the "Ring of Fire". y) two tectonic plates are rubbing against each other under Iceland. z) the American plate is diving under the European plate in this region.
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- IT WAS FORMED ABOVE A MID-OCEAN RIFT.
Description : My first is found on the ocean wave, In the spring, the pit, and the mine; My second below earth’s surface you have, Where seldom the sun can shine. My whole your dinner-table must grace, And seldom fails to obtain a place.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Salt-cellar.
Description : until about 200 million years ago, earth's continents were joined as a single land mass called -General Knowledge
Last Answer : Until about 200 million years ago, Earth's continents were joined as a single land mass called Pangaea.
Description : Is it true that the earth's continents were once one large continent which was called Pangaea?
Last Answer : Yes, that is true. Continents slowly move around; for moreinformation, check the Wikipedia article (or other educationalresources) for "continental drift". On several occasions, that mademost ... a single"supercontinent"; the last such supercontinent was Pangaea,approximately 175 million years ago.
Description : The currents of the Earth's oceans are caused by?
Last Answer : Ocean currents can be caused by wind ,density differences in water masses caused by temperature and sanility variations ,gravity ,and events such as earthquakes or storms.
Description : What is true about the relationship between the oceans and the Earth's climate?
Description : Are reservoirs that chemical elements can move through as part of the Earth's biogeochemical cycle I.the solid Earth II.Earth's oceans III.Earth's atmosphere IV.organisms on Earth?
Description : What percent of earths water is found in oceans?
Last Answer : 97% of the Earths water is in our oceans.
Description : What are some characteristics of the earths oceans?
Description : What role do humans play on the Earths oceans?
Last Answer : this is not answer by HEAVEN
Description : Earth's Deepest point in water is Mariana trench. It is located in which of the following oceans? (1) Atlantic Ocear (2) Arctic Ocean (3) Indian Ocean (4) Pacific Ocean
Last Answer : (4) Pacific Ocean Explanation: The Mariana trenchis located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands, in the Western Pacific East of Philippines.
Description : Which of the following is not a practical method of low level radioactive waste disposal? (A) Dilution with inert material (B) Discharging to atmosphere through tall stacks after dilution (C) Disposing off in rivers & oceans (D) Filling in steel crates and shooting it off out of earth's gravity
Last Answer : (D) Filling in steel crates and shooting it off out of earth's gravity
Description : In which tectonic environment, you can find the surface expression in the form of folding? (A) Extensional (B) Compressional (C) Strike slip (D) All of these
Last Answer : (B) Compressional
Description : What keeps the continents floating on a sea of molten rock? -Geography
Last Answer : answer:
Description : What Rock formations river and lakes appear to match up on different continents due to this piece of evidence?
Description : If magma crystallizes before it reaches earth's surface it will form a what igneous rock?
Last Answer : It will for an intrusive igneous rock. They usually take longerto cool and have more coarse grains.
Description : What is the earths crust is in giant pieces called?
Last Answer : plates
Description : If you dropped and broke 2 of your dinner plates, How many would you have left? What should I do with the remaining 6 plates?
Last Answer : Keep them to rotate in for smaller gatherings or for the kiddie table.