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What theory explains the processes that shape the Earths surface into mountains deep sea trenches and oceanic ridges?
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the theory of sea floor spreading or continental drift
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Which theory explains the processes that shape the Earths surface into mountains deep-sea trenches and oceanic ridges?
plate tectonics
What are 2 landforms that are created at by oceanic oceanic crust?
Trenches and undersea mountains :)
What is a specific example of what forms as a result of a shift in a convergent boundary?
at an oceanic to continental convergent boundary trenches and volcanic mountains can form. at an oceanic to oceanic convergent boundary trenches and volcanic islands can form. at a continental to continental convergent boundary fold mountains can form
What does the collision of a continental plate and an oceanic plate produce?
when two plates collide they form trenches.
What forms when oceanic plates collide?
1. Oceanic trenches. 2. Volcanic islands. 3. Volcanic mountains. and 4. Volcanic arcs.
How do convergent and transform boundaries cause earthquakes?
It can cause earthquakes, volcanoes, oceanic trenches, mountains, tsunamis, and subduction.
Where are oceanic trenches?
plate tectonics
Deep-oceanic trenches are most abundant around the rim of the?
Deep-oceanic trenches are most abundant around the rim of the Pacific. Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle at a subduction zone.
What happens when an oceanic plate digs into earths hot interior?
an volcano is formed
How are trenches and mountains ranges connected?
Trenches and mountain ranges are both formed by tectonic plate movements. Trenches are formed where one tectonic plate is subducted under another, creating deep oceanic trenches. Mountain ranges are formed when tectonic plates collide, pushing up the Earth's crust to form high elevations.
What are offshore trenches?
Offshore trenches, also known as oceanic trenches, are depressions in the sea floor. They are the deepest parts of the ocean floor.
What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath the trenches?
Subduction.
