Question

16a use the diagram to develop a claim about what causes plates to move around on earths surface. use a complete sentence.
claim:
read the passage - moving plates - and answer the question below:

1. what causes plates to move around on earths surface? use the diagram and the sentence frame to provide sufficient evidence to support your claim (activity 1). use a complete sentence(s).

evidence: the diagram shows

Explanation:

The diagram shows convection currents (the circular - motion arrows). In Earth's mantle, heat from the core causes convection currents. Just as the heat from the candle (in the diagram) can cause a fluid (in the container) to move in a circular pattern (convection currents), in the Earth, the hot material in the mantle rises, cools, and then sinks back down. This movement of the mantle material exerts a force on the tectonic plates above it, causing the plates to move.

Answer:

Claim: Convection currents in the mantle cause tectonic plates to move on Earth's surface.
Evidence: The diagram shows circular - motion arrows (convection currents) which, similar to how movement in a heated fluid (in the diagram) occurs, in the Earth's mantle, convection currents (due to heat from the core) move the material, and this movement drives the plates.