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What the similarities between mid ocean ridge and trenches?

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Trench: very deep, elongated cavity bordering a continent or an island arc; it forms when one tectonic plate slides beneath another.


Ridge: underwater mountain range that criss-crosses the oceans and is formed by rising magma in a zone where two plates are moving apart.
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