Pd 3/ Big Idea/ Movement of Continents by MissBhuta

Alexandra&Diana #2

2016-02-01 15:32:59 UTC

Tectonic plates make up the lithosphere because when the magma is "circular motion'' the intense heat in the earth's core that causes molten rock in the mantle layer to move

Adan

2016-02-01 15:33:01 UTC

I think that tectonic plates move because of convention currents

Reyes,Alex#2

2016-02-01 15:33:07 UTC

Tectonic plates move because the convection currents in the asthenosphere and they divide the lithosphere and make tectonic plates and because the convection currents keep moving at all times they keep pushing the tectonic plate.

Jimmy,Denisse#2

2016-02-01 15:33:10 UTC

The tectonic plates move because they would affect the asthenosphere. When the current is going in a circular motion.The core heats up the magma and let it become less dense but when the magma reaches to the top it gets cooled and becomes more dense which sinks. This affects the plate because the lithosphere is affected by the currents in the asthenosphere. When the convection current goes in a circular motion is separates the plates.

shanice,leslie #

2016-02-01 15:33:32 UTC

Tectonic plates move because of convection currents. Their moving because of the asthenosphere which has convection currents, is on the bottom of the lithosphere, which is made up of plates. So when the magma moves in a circular motion, the tectonic plates move along with it.

Cristian, Steve #2

2016-02-01 15:34:08 UTC

Plates at our planet's surface move because of the intense heat the Earth's core that causes molten rock in the mantle to move. It moves in a pattern called convection current that forms when warm material rises. They move because the plates or lithosphere are riding on the asthenosphere.

Amdrew,Manuela 2

2016-02-01 15:34:27 UTC

Tectonic plates move by the convection currents that is happening in the asthenosphere. The magma moves the plate by going in convection currents over and over again making continents and the plate move. The lithosphere moves because it is the plates.

Frank, Steven #2

2016-02-01 15:34:38 UTC

The reason for tectonic plates to move is because of what is happening on the Asthenosphere. In which the convention current is happening in a circular motion thanks to the up and down cycle to the magma which in brief, when the magma is getting heated, the magma becomes less dense and rise. But when the magma gets up the magma loses heat because of the magma being so far away from the core which is heating the magma so it hardens/becomes more dense and then fall. So of that circular motion happening which is not one motion its a ton of circular motion happening in which causes different plates in the lithosphere to move. But since all the plates move and their very close to each other , by now 2 plates will crash into each other which will cause ground like natural disaster like Earthquakes.

Silvia , Dulce #2

2016-02-01 15:35:13 UTC

Tectonic plates move in many ways, the tectonic plates make up the lithosphere. Plates are pieces of land mass. The plates move in many directions sometimes they crash into each other or separate some other times the plates sink into the asthenosphere which result to volcanoes to erupt. Tectonic plates move because of convection currents. Convection currents is the circular motion in which the magma in the mantle moves. Tectonic plates move because of the magma under them, when the hot magma rises up to the lithosphere the cooled magma sinks the plates move. Which is why tectonic plates move.

Emily Cruz, Melissa

2016-02-01 15:37:56 UTC

The tectonic plates move because the conventional currents that is happening in the asthenosphere. The conventional currents is when the core heats up the magma and it becomes less dense and rises and then it cools down and it becomes more dense and sinks this is a circular motion that is contently happening this makes the lithosphere move and with it the plates.