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What is the role of the mid ocean ridge in the movement lithosphere plates?
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To fill the gap of separating plates.
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What is the role of the mid ocean ridge in the movement of lithospheric plates?
Fill the gap between separating plates.
A mid-ocean ridge forms along what plates?
tectonic plates
What is an underwater mountain chain formed where new crust is created by seafloor spreading called?
The process of sea-floor spreading created the lithosphere under the Atlantic Ocean. As North America and South America moved away from Europe and Africa, the resulting crack was filled by mantle material, which cooled and formed new lithosphere. The process continues today. Molten mantle materials continually rise to fill the cracks formed as the plates move slowly apart from each other. This process creates an underwater mountain chain, known as a mid-ocean ridge, along the zone of newly forming lithosphere.
What forces causes the plates to move?
Ridge push, slab pull, and convection.
How does the force of gravity affect tectonic plates?
Gravitational sliding:Plate motion is driven by the higher elevation of plates at ocean ridges. As oceanic lithosphere is formed at spreading ridges from hot mantle material it gradually cools and thickens with age (and thus distance from the ridge).
What is the role of the mid-ocean ridge in the movement of lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What is the role of mid ocean ridge in the movement of the lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What is the role of the mid ocean ridge in the movement of lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What is the role the mid-ocean ridge in the movement of lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What is the role of the mid-ocean ridge in the movement of lithospheric plates?
Fill the gap between separating plates.
What is the role of the mid ocean ridge in the movement of lithospheric plates?
Fill the gap between separating plates.
What evntually happens to seafloor that is carried away from a mid-ocean ridge?
Seafloor continues to move away from the mid-ocean ridge and eventually comes into contact with another plate boundary. Ocean plates subduct underneath continental plates and are forced down into the lithosphere
What is the role of the mid-ocean ridge in the movement of lithospheric plate?
Fill the gap between separating plates.
A mid-ocean ridge forms along what plates?
tectonic plates
What is an underwater mountain chain formed where new crust is created by seafloor spreading called?
The process of sea-floor spreading created the lithosphere under the Atlantic Ocean. As North America and South America moved away from Europe and Africa, the resulting crack was filled by mantle material, which cooled and formed new lithosphere. The process continues today. Molten mantle materials continually rise to fill the cracks formed as the plates move slowly apart from each other. This process creates an underwater mountain chain, known as a mid-ocean ridge, along the zone of newly forming lithosphere.
Where in relation to a mid ocean ridge would you find the oceanic lithosphere?
the bottom
Where is oceanic and continental plates?
at the mid-ocean ridge
