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- the movement of the world tiny earth quakes we have every day. it separates when the earths core feels the need to move into a proper position so the earth quake does not effect it.
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What causes the sea floor to spread apart?
the movement of tectonic plates under the earths crust
Name some of the scientific fields involved in oceanography?
Some of the scientific fields involved in oceanography include physical oceanography (study of physical properties of the ocean), chemical oceanography (study of chemical composition and processes in the ocean), biological oceanography (study of marine life and ecosystems), geological oceanography (study of the ocean floor and geological processes), and marine meteorology (study of weather and climate in the ocean).
What ocean does St Lawrence River flow into?
Atlantic Ocean
What is mean by FSI?
Floor space index
Full form of FSI?
Floor Space Index
The primary source that causes the seafloor to spread and continents to drift?
In the middle of the ocean is a rift where the ocean floor squeezes out lava and pushes the ocean plates apart.
Sea-floor spreading is a valuable theory as it relates to plate tectonics because why?
the spread of the ocean floor pushes the lithospheric plates around.
Where does sea floor spread?
Sea floor spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges.
What forms features on the ocean?
What causes ocean floor features to form
Subduction occurs where the oceanic crust bends down toward the mantle at a(n)?
Seafloor spreading occurs along mid-ocean ridges. Mid-ocean ridges are large mountain ranges on the ocean floor. The shifting in the rock causes the seafloor to spread and allows magma to bubble and form more mountains on the ocean floor.
Is a process by which ocean floors spread laterally from crests of main ocean ridges?
Sea floor spreading
What is the primary force that causes the sea-floor to spread?
Convection currents
What does produce when sea floor spreading occur?
An ocean because when the ocean spread out the ocean floor is moving and becoming large but because also of the sinking of the ocean floor it 's not becoming larger it's just maintaining it own size. lyssa
Why does the ocean floor spread apart at the ridge?
Because as tectonic plates move away from each other, the ocean floor spreads apart and fills the gap.
What causes material to form at a mid-ocean ridge on the ocean floor?
New material forms on the ocean floor of the mid-ocean ridge due to plate tectonics and volcanic activity. Volcanic eruptions deposit cooled magma on the ocean floor.
An earthquake that causes a landslide under the ocean floor can trigger a?
tsunami
What is the primary force that causes the sea floor to spread and continents to drift?
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