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

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false

Step-by-step 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.

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

Answer: Option B

Step-by-step 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.

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