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How does the Mid Atlantic Ridge affect the Atlantic Ocean?
The tectonic plates are separating and growing more ocean floor (seafloor spreading).
What is happening to the size of the south Atlantic ocean?
the Atlantic is growing in size because the tectonic plates are divergent, meaning they are separating.
Which ocean is growing due to seafloor spreading?
The Atlantic Ocean is growing due to seafloor spreading. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge runs down the center of the Atlantic, where new oceanic crust is continuously formed as tectonic plates pull apart. This process contributes to the widening of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Atlantic ocean is growing by a few cm each year. Explain this phenomenon using plate tectonic theory?
That is because the plates are shifting, they moving away from each other causing the Atlantic Ocean to grow wider.
Movement of tectonic plates is not caused by?
Ocean Current.
Do plates pull apart in the middle of the Atlantic ocean?
Tectonic plates do pull apart in the middle of the ocean. These divergent plates form what is known as the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
How does the Mid Atlantic Ridge affect the Atlantic Ocean?
The tectonic plates are separating and growing more ocean floor (seafloor spreading).
Is Atlantic ocean is expanding?
Because the tectonic plates which it sits upon are moving apart at the mid-atlantic ridge.
What is happening to the size of the south Atlantic ocean?
the Atlantic is growing in size because the tectonic plates are divergent, meaning they are separating.
How would you explain the fact that the Pacific ocean is constantly shrinking and the Atlantic ocean is increasing in size?
shifting tectonic plates
Where do volcanos not form?
Volcanoes form on the ring of fire on the tectonic plates in the Atlantic Ocean so if you go further and further into the Atlantic Ocean there won't be volcanoes. And also on places that are miles from tectonic plates there won't be any there either. Just think if you were to go to a tectonic plate boundary there would be volcanoes now say you go 40 miles away from the tectonic plate there probably won't be volcanoes.
Which ocean is growing due to seafloor spreading?
The Atlantic Ocean is growing due to seafloor spreading. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge runs down the center of the Atlantic, where new oceanic crust is continuously formed as tectonic plates pull apart. This process contributes to the widening of the Atlantic Ocean.
Underwater mountains chains that forms where two tectonic plates are pulling are called?
Underwater mountain chains that form where two tectonic plates are pulling apart are called mid ocean ridges. The largest is the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
Where on Earth do two tectonic plates move away from each other?
Also Known as a Divergent Boundry, the most famous one is the Mid Atlantic Ridge in the middle of the Atlantic ocean which is at this very moment, increasing the length of the Atlantic ocean.
What will the positions of the tectonic plates be in the future?
No one is able to predict with pinpoint accuracy the position of the Earth's tectonic plates at a specific point in the distant future. In the short term (<100 million years), however, it is a pretty sure thing that the Atlantic Ocean will get bigger, and that the Pacific Ocean will get smaller.
A mid-ocean ridge forms along what plates?
tectonic plates
The Atlantic ocean is growing by a few cm each year. Explain this phenomenon using plate tectonic theory?
That is because the plates are shifting, they moving away from each other causing the Atlantic Ocean to grow wider.
