EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Plate movement at transform boundaries can sometimes cause earthquakes, some quite large and devastating.
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Plate movement at convergent boundaries can result in the formation of mountain ranges like the Himalayas.
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The spreading rate of some continents can reach 120 millimeters per year.
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As solid as the earth may seem, there are always parts of its crust moving at incredibly slow rates.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Crustal movements can be dangerous to humans. What evidence from the text supports this conclusion? A. Plate movement at transform boundaries can sometimes cause earthquakes, some quite large and devastating.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sheared-up mountain ridges and valleys form in a narrow zone where one plate slides past another at a transform plate boundary. And a mountain chain of volcanoes forms where a plate rides over a hotspot; the volcanoes get older and lower as the plate moves them away from the hotspot.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: We, as humans, live on top of the lithosphere, which includes tectonic plates. When tectonic plates interact near boundaries, they can cause natural disasters, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Large geological features, like mountain ranges and volcanos, can also form.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the world’s earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, and volcanic eruptions are caused by the continuous motions of the many tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s outer shell.