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Q: What happens when 2 tectonic plates spread apart?
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What earth plates spread apart slowly?

Divergent plates are tectonic earth plates that spread slowly apart.


What causes the sea floor to spread apart?

Sea floor spreading occurs due to the movement of tectonic plates away from each other. This movement creates a gap or rift at the mid-ocean ridge where magma rises up from below the Earth's crust, solidifying to form new crust. Over time, this process results in the continuous widening of the sea floor.


What happens when two tectonic plates move apart?

Magma seeps up through the two plates from the mantle and form volcanos.


What happens at spreading plate boundaries?

tectonic plates move apart allowing magma to move to the surface.


What do tectonic plates do at a divergent plate boundary?

At a divergent boundary tectonic plates move apart.


Long crack that forms as two tectonic plates move apart?

Long crack that forms as two tectonic plates move apart


When tectonic plates pull apart?

Tectonic plates have been pulling apart forever. At least all the time the earth has been around.


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.


Tectonic plates interact at what?

Tectonic plates interact at plate boundariesThey move apart at divergent boundaries


What happens along divergent boundaries?

along divergent boundaries tectonic plates move apart & rifts are created


What are the differences between plate tectonic and tectonic plates?

Converging plates come together. They converge together. Diverging plates come apart.


What boundary forms when tectonic plates pull apart?

The movement of tectonic plates in opposite directions is referred to as a divergent boundary.