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What is the process that creates new oceanic floor along both sides of the mid-ocean ridge?
Convection current
Hotspot
Seafloor Spreading
Convergence
What is the main driving force for seafloor spreading?
Subduction
Continental Drift
Convection Current
Slab Pull
Which of the following supports seafloor spreading?
shape of the continents
age of oceanic crust
presence of glacial scars
formation of volcanic arc
Which of the following increases with distance from a mid-ocean ridge?
the age of oceanic lithosphere
the thickness of the lithosphere
the depth to the seafloor
all of the given
The pacific ocean is shrinking.
TRUE
FALSE
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