Assess the strength of the relationship between tectonic processes and major landforms on the earth’s surface. Tectonic processes have been responsible for the major landforms across the Earth’s surface. These processes are controlled by the convection currents rising from the Earth’s mantle. Firstly‚ one place where tectonic activity occurs is at oceanic to oceanic constructive plate boundaries. Here two plates diverge or move away from each other‚ pushed apart by huge convection currents
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Chapter One The theory of plate tectonics explains how forces within the planet create landforms. This theory views Earth’s crust as divided into more than a dozen‚ rigid‚ slow-moving plates. Some plates are as large as a quarter of the planet‚ but others are only a few hundred miles across. The plates slowly move across the upper mantle‚ usually less than an inch per year. Scientists use the theory of plate tectonics to explain the long history of Earth’s surface. They believe that about a few
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Plate Tectonic Assignment 1. The Juan de Fuca and Cocos plates were once part of a much larger plate called the _________ plate. 2. How long ago was this plate the dominate plate? 3. What plate(s) are the remnants of this former plate? 4. What kind of plate boundary exists between the Juan de Fuca and the North American plate? 5. What kind of plate boundary exists between the Pacific plate and the North American plate? 6. What tectonic process is ongoing between Baja California and the North
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boundaries by which an oceanic plate slides slowly under a continental plate into the Earth’s mantle‚ as the result of pressure and friction. After a long period of time the overriding continental plate is lifted up creating a mountain range. This is how the Himalayas were formed. Sometimes the extreme heat and pressure exerted on the subducting oceanic plate causes an uplift of magma from the mantle which rises above the surface‚ creating a volcano. When two plates are moving they don’t always slide
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11/20/13 Earth Space Science Plate Tectonics Theory Plate tectonics is the theory that the outer rigid layer of the earth is divided into a couple of dozen plates that move around across the earth’s surface relative to each other‚ like slabs of ice on a lake. Plate Tectonics is cause by convection currents in the mantle of the Earth. This theory was originally called continental drift. The theory of “Pangea” that is the continents were connected was Alfred Wegener. The age of the sea floor is
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Earth: Earth’s tectonic plates (or plates which float separately and independently of the hotter mantle which sits below them) are categorized into three major categories‚ these being: Primary (Major)‚ Secondary (Minor) and Tertiary (or‚ micro-plates.) The seven major (or‚ any plates which range over at least 10 million kilometers) plates are: African plate‚ Antarctic plate‚ Eurasian plate‚ Indo-Australian plate‚ North American plate‚ Pacific plate and South American plate. These are also the
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A plate tectonic is defined as a solid rock mass that builds up the Earth’s surface. The plate tectonic theory is a theory that geologists use to help explain the surface processes and events. The word plate means large pieces of the earth that are always in motion‚ lithosphere plates. Tectonics means how the continents formed and move over time. This is the theory that most geologists accept as to what happened to our continents. It states that Earth is made up of two layers‚ the lithosphere
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