How did the South American Plate and the African Plate move? Explain using evidence you have collected so far. Use the words fro
m the word bank to help you formulate your answer. Word Bank: away, together, continent, ocean, earthquake, outer layer, mantle, plate, plate boundary, convergent, divergent, mid-ocean ridge, trench, volcanic activity
The Mid Atlantic Ridge, like other ocean ridge systems, has developed as a consequence of the divergent motion between the Eurasian and North American, and African and South American Plates. In this way, as the plates move further apart new ocean lithosphere is formed at the ridge and the ocean basin gets wider.
