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What tetonic plate does Europe sit on?
Eurasian Plate
A moving slab of rock is called a?
Tectonic Plate
What is the diffrerence of a tetonic plate and hotspot?
A `hotspot' stands still and melts the tectonic plate moving above it.
What does a string of volcanoes usually indicate?
The ring of fire, or a tetonic plate is near
What type of plate boundary is associated with shallow earthquuakes?
iit is usually the tetonic plates
On which tetonic plate is Ireland located?
The Eurasian plate. For more details go to: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/tectonic.htm
What type of tectonic plate boundry involves a collision between two tetonic plates?
its convergent!
How are mountains formed by plate movements?
A tetonic plate can ram into another plate and shift downward underneath the other plate. This causes a subduction zone and moutains, for example the Himalayas or the Andes
How do you make a model of earthquake plates?
You make a model of a ground and then you use a metal peice and model it into a tetonic plate and try to make it move.
How continets form?
Volcanic eruptions, tetonic plate shifts, fluid shear due to gravity and rotation, hydrodynamic shifts due to cataclysmic envirunmental changes
Do earthquakes cause sliding plates?
If you mean tetonic plates, then no, sliding tetonic plates cause earthquakes.
Why do the hawaiian islands get smaller when they move northwest?
The Hawaiian islands are made from volcanic eruptions. The active volcanoes in the circle of fire are to the south of Hawaii.
