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Mid ocean ridges form longs chains of blank that rose from the ocean floor

A

Mountains

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When did Pangea form

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300 million years ago

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Most blank lie under thousands of meters of water

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Mid ocean ridges

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Steep sided valleys split the top of most blank

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Mid ocean ridges

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Mid ocean ridges form along a crack in

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Oceanic crust

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During sea floor spreading older strips of rock move

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Outward

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Eventually the ocean flood plunges into

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Deep underwater canyons

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At a deep ocean trench oceanic crust bends

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Downward

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As the crust cools it becomes more

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Dense

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Old crust =

New crust =

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Cold

Hot

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The dense crust might collide with a

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Contenent

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Seaflooeing spreading and blank move the ocean floor like a conveyer belt

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Subduction

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Gravity pulls the blank crust beneath the trench and back into the mantle

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Denser

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Many trenches=

Few trenches =

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Shrink

Grow

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Earths blank move because they are the top part of the large convection currents in earths mantle

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Plates

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Faults form along

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Plate boundaries

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Diverge makes

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Rift valleys

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The density of the blank decides which is on top

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Crust

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More dense =

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Sinks

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Convergent boundary forms

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Volcano

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Transform boundary forms

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Earthquakes