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umka21 [38]
3 years ago
8

How do tectonic plates grow and shrink?

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cricket20 [7]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

The plates slide out of gaps that sometimes create mountains, and they can become volcanoes.

Explanation:

Marizza181 [45]3 years ago
3 0

An expanding earth (growing earth) may also in time be a contracting or shrinking world. If the worlds tectonic plates (sections that make up the continents like Eurasia , Africa and the sea floor etc) can expand then they can also shrink.

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