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1: What causes the Earth’s plates to move?

2: What happens when the Earth’s plates pull away from each other? What happens when they push together?

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Answer:

1. the internal pressure and of the planets core.

2. when Earth's plates pull apart they cause new molten rock to come to the surface eventually Cooling and becoming stone.

when Earth's plates push together it is called a convergent boundary, usually they Buckle under the pressure and become either mountain ranges or underwater trenches.

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