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The Pacific Ocean is growing larger.
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False

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Though huge, the Pacific is getting smaller. It was once much wider when all the continents were joined together in the supercontinent, Pangea. The Pacific ocean basin is getting smaller because the Atlantic Ocean is opening and North America and South America are moving westward.

User Neil Laslett
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False,because the sea floor is folding under itself
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