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How can the pacific ocean be shrinking and Atlantic ocean be growing?
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Can the ocean shrink?
Yes, the Pacific Ocean is shrinking and the Atlantic Ocean is growing.
Why is the Atlantic ocean growing?
it will keep getting bigger and bigger
The Pacific Ocean is shrinking while the Atlantic Ocean is expanding Which type of plate boundary must be involved in each location?
The Pacific Ocean is shrinking while the Atlantic Ocean is expanding. Which type of plate boundary must be involved in each location?
Why is the pacific ocean slowly getting smaller?
The reason the Pacific Ocean is shrinking is because of the deep water trenches there, while the Atlantic ocean is getting bigger. In about 500 million years the Pacific will not be there and the Atlantic will be overflowing.
Is it farther to cross the eastern ocean or western ocean?
The answer would be the western ocean, assuming that you are in the north america. Eurasia, then it would be the eastern that is larger. It is further to cross the pacific then the atlantic, but the atlantic is growing and pacific is shrinking, so... give it several tens of millions of years and, that wont be the case anymore.
Is the Pacific Ocean getting smaller?
yes because the Atlantic ocean is growing and pushing the Atlantic ocean aside
How would you explain the fact that the Pacific ocean is constantly shrinking and the Atlantic ocean is increasing in size?
shifting tectonic plates
How does the ridge-rift in the pacific ocean differ from that in the Atlantic ocean?
Pacific ocean is shrinking due to plate tectonics while Atlantic is increasing in size. Looked up the same question just now for a final tomorrow.
Is the Atlantic Ocean growing or shrinking?
The Atlantic is getting bigger as the Eurasian and American plates move further away from each other. The Pacific is getting smaller which can be seen most easily in San Francisco where the large amount of earthquakes are due to the pacific plate being pushed underneath the American plate.
Which ocean is larger Pacific Ocean or Atlantic Ocean?
The Pacific Ocean
The Panama Canal connects what bodies of water?
The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What are the four oceans of the Earth?
The four ocean's of the earth are : * The Indian Ocean, * The Atlantic Ocean, * The Pacific Ocean, * The Arctic Ocean
