Question

Since new oceanic crust is created at the mid-ocean ridges, then the Earth is getting bigger

Answer 1

It is false that the new oceanic crust is created at the mid-ocean ridges, then the Earth is getting bigger.

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

Amid ocean ridge is a range of the mountain has been formed under the water and a crust is been developed at these ridges through out. Because of the plates moving away from each other, the crust is developed, the lithosphere becomes a little cool but this does not change the size of the earth, neither does it increase nor does it decrease.

Answer 2

Answer:

false

Explanation:

This new crust is gradually pushed away from the ridge by more new crust, eventually traveling the across the plate. A process called seafloor spreading, then back into the Earth's interior at a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate dives beneath another.