GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plate motions cause mountains to rise where plates push together, or converge, and continents to fracture and oceans to form where plates pull apart, or diverge. The continents are embedded in the plates and drift passively with them, which over millions of years results in significant changes in Earth’s geography.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tectonic plates are extremely large and can encompass both land and ocean. These tectonic plates interact with one another because of the Earth’s internal heat. This heat causes movement of material beneath the Earth’s crust and releases energy in the form of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Detailed explanation-3: -The theory of plate tectonics revolutionized the earth sciences by explaining how the movement of geologic plates causes mountain building, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Mountain ranges, ocean trenches, volcanoes, and earthquakes occur in patterns. The movement of plates causes mountain ranges, ocean trenches, volcanoes, and earthquakes occur. There are three types of plate boundaries (divergent, convergent, and transform).