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Seafloor Spreading Notes
Trenches
Tectonic Plates
Lithosphere
Subduction
Divergent
Boundary
What happens when two tectonic plates pull apart? Where does this happen?
How is old seafloor destroyed?
What do scientists study to understand the movement of the tectonic plates?
How can the ocean floor be created and/or destroyed?
What makes it the tectonic plates move and shift? What characteristics of Earth make this
possible?