What forces beaneath and above the surface of the Earth shape its surface?How do they work?

Question

history

I think it has to do with the five themes of geography

Answer 1

See if you can get an article in Scientific America about three or four months ago. The title may have been why has magnet north changed.It explains all going on below. Read any books on volcanoes, floods, glaciers, earthquakes, Platonic shifts not sure of spelling and how Grand Canyon was formed for the rest.

Answer 2

The Earth is made up of platonic plates.. the magma brewing underneath the Earth's surface moves in certain patterns, or directions. This movement causes the plates to move into each other, causing fold mountains (crashing into each other and the land moves upward)... volcanic eruptions where the magma spews up.. earth quakes.. all of these things cause the surface to change. Erosion (wind, ice, water, weather forces, etc.) also help to shape the outer surface.

Answer 3

well the tectonic plates move extremely slowly and pull apart the continents and make mountains like cj_bigg said, but it also has to do with the weather and the weather shapes things just as much as the tectonic plates do, and the water and the tides and gravity, just about everything influences how the earth is shaped

Answer 4

Well forces below the earth such as tectonic plate movements creat the landforms on earth such as mountians. However forces such as erosion due to wind and rain and human use work to break those mountians down.

Answer 5

Gravity...Pressures, Hot gazes
Gravity push mater down, build up heat, that create gazes that push mater up...

This is the simplest way I can explain it...
If you want more detail you need to look in your geology book.

Answer 6

God created it. The rest is just humans thinking they can figure out answers

Answer 7

it has to do wit the tectonic plates
and how it shifts and goes in to eacother to make mountains over time
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