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What landform is created when plates diverge (move apart)?
A mid-ocean ridge is formed when plates diverge or move apart. This is where new crust is created as magma rises to fill the gap created by the separating plates.
What do plates move apart along on?
Plates move apart along divergent boundaries, where new crust is created through volcanic activity and magma upwelling from the mantle. This process is called seafloor spreading and occurs primarily in mid-ocean ridges.
What forms when two lithospheric plates move apart?
When two lithospheric plates move apart, a divergent boundary is formed. This process results in the creation of new oceanic crust as magma rises to fill the gap between the plates, forming a mid-ocean ridge.
What happens when two plates move apart from each other?
When two plates move apart from each other, it creates a divergent boundary. Magma from the mantle rises to fill the gap, solidifies, and forms new crust. This process is called seafloor spreading and is responsible for the formation of mid-ocean ridges.
Long crack that forms as two tectonic plates move apart?
A long, linear crack that forms as two tectonic plates move apart is called a mid-ocean ridge. This type of boundary is where new oceanic crust is created as molten rock rises up from the mantle and solidifies along the spreading center. Over time, as the plates continue to move apart, the new crust forms a continuous ridge on the ocean floor.
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.
What do plates move apart on?
Plates move apart on divergent plate boundaries.
When the ocean floor spreads at the plate boundary the resting on the plates also move apart?
When the ocean floor spreads at a divergent plate boundary, tectonic plates move apart due to the upwelling of magma from the mantle, which creates new oceanic crust. This process leads to the formation of mid-ocean ridges and results in the expansion of the ocean basin. As the plates separate, they can also cause geological activity, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, along the boundary. Overall, the movement of the ocean floor directly influences the dynamics of the tectonic plates above it.
What forms when 2 oceanic plates move apart?
Some move away from each other and create massive trenches normally in the sea bed, for example the Mariana Trench - 10,998 m.
What do you get when the plates spread apart?
When the plates move apart they will more than likley create a large creak, Depending on how far they move apart. It would be a small creek.
What type of plate boundary would you find where the sea floor spreads?
A divergent plate boundary is where the sea floor spreads, such as along mid-ocean ridges. At these boundaries, tectonic plates move apart from each other, allowing magma to rise and create new crust.
What is it called when two lithospheric plates move apart?
Continental Plates
Where do plates move apart?
divergent boundarys
When the sea floor spreads apart volcanoes and ridges are formed because?
"as the plates pull apart, magma moves to the surface, building ridges"
How do lithosphere plates move where convection currents rise?
They move apart.
Do Earths Tetonic plates move apart?
Yes they do.
When two continental plates move apart?
earthquake!!!!!!
