what causes the earth's surface to move causing changes in the lands,sea,and mountains?

Answer 1

the earth plates are moving and pushing eachother causing mountains to form and dips and hills and bumps all over the place. the closer to the fault line the more bumpy it will be :)

Answer 2

the Earth's crust is made up of about a dozen plates on which the continents and oceans rest. These plates are continually shifting because the surface beneath them - the hot, soft mantle - is moving slowly like a conveyor belt, driven by heat and other forces at work in the Earth's core. The plates are moving about a centimeter (0.5 in) to 15 centimeters (6 in) per year in different directions. The Earth's tectonic plates can move apart, collide, or slide past each other. The Mid-Ocean Ridge system - the Earth's underwater mountain range - arises where the plates are moving apart. As the plates part, the seafloor cracks. Cold seawater seeps down into these cracks, becomes super-heated by magma, and then bursts back out into the ocean, forming hydrothermal vents. As the plates move farther apart, magma from the Earth's interior percolates up to fill the gap, sometimes leading to the eruption of undersea volcanoes. This process, called seafloor spreading, is how new seafloor is formed. Conversely, when tectonic plates meet, the force causes mountains to rise and deep trenches to form. When the edge of one plate is forced under another - a process called subduction - it causes intense vibrations in the Earth's crust, producing an earthquake.

Answer 3

I believe the theory that answers this question is the theory that the multiple tectonic plates on which different portions of the Earth's surface sit, move in the direction of currents that occur in the magma of the mantle.

When two currents are in the same direction, two tectonic plates converge or press up against each other. The pressure that this causes can lead to sudden changes in the crust of the Earth during pressure releases. The energy created makes the Earth quake. When two plates press up against one another, the ground at this point has nowhere else to go but up, creating mountains. (Sometimes, one plate goes underneath the other, and the plate that ends up on top creates a steep mountain.)

When two plates are moving in different directions (like in the Atlantic ocean), a crack occurs in the surface of the Earth. Magma flows up from mantle (underneath the crack) and escapes through the crack on the surface. The magma, now lava, cools and makes more "ground" on the sea floor. This is called sea floor spreading.

Answer 4

It can be volcanoes pushing the land up. It can be the aftermath of earthquakes rearranging the surface. It can be erosion or subsidence of the land causing high areas to go down.

Answer 5

Tectonics. Plates floating on lava!

Answer 6

hot magma circulating in side earth makes movement of techtonic plates they collides to create problem may be is main cause....