How Tectonic Plates Work

Question 1

What are the tectonic plates?

Answer 1

The enormous size of the Earth’s ground combined with rocks, which is placed at continent and ocean.

Question 2

What is a Ring of Fire?

Answer 2

The large way on the edge of the Pacific Ocean has a lot of tectonic plates, where earthquakes occur the most on Earth’s crust.

Question 3

Why do plate tectonics move away from each other?

Answer 3

They will move away from each other because of the heat from the radioactive process that causes the planet’s center to move.

Question 4

What would happen if all plate tectonics moved in the same direction?

Answer 4

There would be no signs of plate boundaries, and no one would be able to notice islands, mountain ranges, or ocean ridges.

Question 5

How many tectonic plates are there on planet Earth (major plates only!11!)? 🌎😎

Answer 5

9

(
1. African Plate
2. Antarctic Plate
3. Eurasian Plate
4. Indo-Australian Plate
5. Australian Plate
6. Indian Plate
7. North American Plate
8. Pacific Plate
9. South American Plate
)