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What do you call the plate boundary where plates are moving away from each other?
divergent boundary
WhAT Mid-Atlantic is a plate boundary?
the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a divergent plate boundary, meaning the two plates are moving away from each other.
What is an example of a divergent plate boundary on land?
Iceland would be a perfect example, straddling the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate, the two plates are moving away from each other.
Is the Pacific Ocean expanding?
No, it is actually shrinking. The Atlantic Ocean is expanding, because the North American plate and the Eurasian plate are moving away from each other.
What kind of plate boundary lies between two plates that are moving away from each other?
Divergent or constructive
Which tectonic plate is moving away from the North American Plate?
The Eurasian Plate & The African Plate.
What tectonic plate is moving away from England?
the orogenies
What is the plates that are moving away from each other?
This is a divergent plate boundary.
Which two tectonic plates are moving away from each other fastest?
The Nazca plate and the Cocos (pacific) plate.
Plates that are moving away from each other?
This is called a divergent plate boundary.
Is the oceanic crust of the African plate is moving away from the continental crust of the Arabian plate?
Yes. The two plates are moving away from each other from a spreading center running through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
What direction does the antarctic plate move?
The western and eastern sides of the Antarctic plate are currently moving away from each other.
Divergent plate movement?
Divergent plates are plates that are moving away from each other.
What do we call the plate boundary where plates are moving away from each other?
divergent boundary
What do you call the plate boundary where plates are moving away from each other?
divergent boundary
What a divergent plate boundaries?
A divergent plate boundary is one where the two plates on either side of the boundary are moving apart; 'di-' meaning away. Convergent plates are moving together.
What boundary between two plates that are moving away from each other called?
divergent plate
