Rock cycle and tectonic plates Openscied Review 2

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The Mid-Atlantic ridge is a large mountain chain under the ocean.

Mountains can shrink due to__________.

_________currents cause magma inside Earth's surface to rise and sink, this movement causes the plates to move.

The Mid-Atlantic ridge is created by plates moving______each other, allowing magma to rise and cool into new ocean crust.

Evidence of marine fossils on the top of large mountains tells us that area was once.

When plates slide past each other we experience_____

Erosion is movement of sediment from one place to another

If erosion rate is greater than uplift rate, a mountain will shrink.