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Mid ocean ridges form longs chains of blank that rose from the ocean floor
Mountains
When did Pangea form
300 million years ago
Most blank lie under thousands of meters of water
Mid ocean ridges
Steep sided valleys split the top of most blank
Mid ocean ridges
Mid ocean ridges form along a crack in
Oceanic crust
During sea floor spreading older strips of rock move
Outward
Eventually the ocean flood plunges into
Deep underwater canyons
At a deep ocean trench oceanic crust bends
Downward
As the crust cools it becomes more
Dense
Old crust =
New crust =
Cold
Hot
The dense crust might collide with a
Contenent
Seaflooeing spreading and blank move the ocean floor like a conveyer belt
Subduction
Gravity pulls the blank crust beneath the trench and back into the mantle
Denser
Many trenches=
Few trenches =
Shrink
Grow
Earths blank move because they are the top part of the large convection currents in earths mantle
Plates