ADVANTAGE

Tectonic
1. Because of plate tectonics,
the earth is filled with plates
majestic mountain ranges.
One of them is the
4. Plate tectonics trapped atmospheric
Himalayas!
carbon dioxide into rocks and thereby
stabilizing our climate, making Earth
habitable. DID YOU KNOW?
DISADVANTAGE Tectonic plates are
1. The movement of plate tectonics responsible for the
can trigger volcano eruptions, continental drift.
2. Subduction is the process of earthquakes, landslides, and Continue reading to
recycling the rock material in tsunamis. It can also destroy find out how!
the oceanic crust. This helps buildings and kill people.

in replenishing the nutrients

essential to life. Also, volcanic
eruptions due to plate
movements have given rise to
fertile soil favoring
agricultural activities.
 WHAT CAUSES TECTONIC
PLATES TO MOVE?
The rocks located on the
Tectonic plates can be
asthenosphere soften and
found on the Earth's
partly melt because the
lithosphere. These plates
temperature and pressure in
are broken into enormous
this layer are so high,
slabs that glide over the
therefore becoming semi-
asthenosphere, which is the
molten. This action causes
denser and weaker layer of
convection and it is the
the mantle just above the
driving force behind the
transition zone. They also
movement of tectonic plates.
caused the separation of
This is also why the
continents!
supercontinents broke apart.