Question

How does the movement of tectonic plates shape the earth's surface?​

Answer 1

In places where convection currents rise up towards the crust's surface, tectonic plates move away from each other in a process known as seafloor spreading (Fig. 7.21). Hot magma rises to the crust's surface, cracks develop in the ocean floor, and the magma pushes up and out to form mid-ocean ridges.

Answer 2

Answer:

When plates come into contact they change the earth's surface 3 types of way:

divergent boundary-plates move apart (horizontally)

convergent boundary-collide and dive or crumble

transform boundary-slide past one another