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Subduction creates ocean trenches true or false!
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Subduction creates ocean trenches true or false!

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Answer: true!
Explanation: Earth's tectonic plates converge and the older, denser plate is pushed beneath the lighter plate and deep into the mantle, causing the seafloor and outermost crust (the lithosphere) to bend and form a trench.
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