the tectonic plates are the actual plates that make up the less-than-firm crust of the earth. These plates float on the magma layer of moltan rock underneth them. When they move and rub together, the vibrations are earthquakes. When the magma pushes up between the plates or in a weak point in a single plate it creates a volcano.
2006-09-23 09:45:10
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answered by roamin70 4
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Plate Tectonics Earthquakes And Volcanoes
2016-10-14 06:29:11
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answered by anderman 4
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When two neighbouring tectonic plates try to move relative to each other, they are usually rather jammed so they can't, and nothing happens while the strain builds up and builds up. Eventually, some part of the crust reaches its breaking strain. When it breaks, years or even centuries of movement of one plate, or of both, will take place in a few seconds. It is a rough ride, worse than on an auto with four flat tyres and the brakes locked. We call it an earthquake.
If one plate is dipping under another, it keeps feeding new rock material to the depth where it can melt, but it is short of room so it tries to escape. The upper plate is usually weakened enough by the earthquakes as the lower plate has juddered and crunched under it that it has cracks and holes, where the melted rock can come up. We call those volcanoes.
2006-09-23 09:52:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Plate tectonics is the over-lying theory presently used by most Earth Scientists to describe motion within the outer-most layer of the solid Earth (also know as the lithosphere). Individual plates of varying size move about the surface of the Earth at varying speeds. Volcanism is associated with two of the plate boundary types: divergent and convergent margins. The former manifest themselves as long volcanic rifts mostly in the ocean basins (ocean ridges) whereas the latter typically make individual volcanoes on the plate that "wins out" in the collision process (i.e., does not subduct).
2016-04-08 01:23:37
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answered by ? 4
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Well it sort of relates two different ways. When one plate smashes into another one it forms mountains which can sometimes be volcanoes. But there is core under the earth and where the plate boundaries are, there are cracks in the crust. Once the pressure builds up it goes up the cracks and comes out the volcanoe. There's more to it but that's all I can think of right now.
2016-03-17 01:32:36
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answered by Anonymous
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The relationship is the Earth itself. We are living on a planet that is 8,000 miles in diameter, but the shell we are living on is barely 50 miles thick.
Tectonic plates are sections of that shell that are in motion.
Volcanoes are pimples in The Earths surface that allow some of the molten Earth to reach the surface.
Earthquakes are proof that the surface of the Earth is shrinking. As the Earth ages it gets wrinkles just like we do.
2006-09-23 10:03:34
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answered by Anonymous
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When hot liquid magma is liberated from the Earth :
a small earthquake occurs advising sismologists the release of lava from a volcano as well as forming new tectonic plates if it is underwater or new soil(land) if it is on dry land
2006-09-23 13:21:06
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answered by spyblitz 7
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They all interrelate by shifting of earth's tectonic plates (continually moving). An earthquake is a result of this movements that are noticable, and a volcano is the excretion of lava due to these movements.
2006-09-23 09:46:23
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answered by str8trisor 2
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the movements of the tectonic plates actually cause earth uakes and volcanoes!
2006-09-23 09:48:03
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answered by tracklurver09 3
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2006-09-23 10:00:42
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answered by Anonymous
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