EARTH SCIENCE
EARTHQUAKES
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They pull away from each other.
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They slide by each other.
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They move to connect to each other.
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It depends, sometimes they move close to each other, sometimes they move far apart.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Convergent (Colliding): This occurs when plates move towards each other and collide. When a continental plate meets an oceanic plate, the thinner, denser, and more flexible oceanic plate sinks beneath the thicker, more rigid continental plate. This is called subduction.
Detailed explanation-2: -At convergent boundaries, plates move toward each other. They can push together and cause mountain ranges to form. At other times, one plate gets pushed down beneath the other plate. This can cause volcanoes.
Detailed explanation-3: -The heat from radioactive processes within the planet’s interior causes the plates to move, sometimes toward and sometimes away from each other. This movement is called plate motion, or tectonic shift.
Detailed explanation-4: -Divergent boundaries–where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Convergent boundaries–where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another. Transform boundaries–where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.