Stretching melted cheese apart from each other.
because in this example, i have given, is it moving apart, and melted cheese, if you want to take it apart, it will not move closer.
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The theory of plate tectonics states that the Earth's solid outer crust, the lithosphere, is separated into plates that move over the asthenosphere, the molten upper portion of the mantle. Oceanic and continental plates come together, spread apart, and interact at boundaries all over the planet.