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Plate Boundaries (3 types (convergent (ridge push (Ridge push or sliding…

- - - - Ridge push or sliding plate force is a proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics. Because mid-ocean ridge lies at a higher elevation than the rest of the ocean floor, gravity causes the ridge to push on the lithosphere that lies farther from the ridge.
    - - vertical elevation of the Earth's surface in response to natural causes.
    - - mountains are large natural elevations of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level.
  - - - magma comes to the surface then replaces the surface rock after it cools
    - - subduction
        
        Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle. Regions where this process occurs are known as subduction zones. ... Plates include both oceanic crust and continental crust.
      - continental plate
        
        Tectonic plates are pieces of earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. Consist of two principal types of material: oceanic crust and continental crust.
      - Slab pull is the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction. Plate motion is partly driven by the weight of cold, dense plates sinking into the mantle.
  - - - The elastic rebound theory is an explanation for how energy is spread during earthquakes. As rocks on opposite sides of a fault are subjected to force and shift, they get energy and slowly deform until their internal strength is gone and breaks.