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What happens to the mantle and the plates at each type of plate boundary? How can you use the materials to show what happens? *

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A divergent boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other. Along these boundaries, earthquakes are common and magma (molten rock) rises from the Earth's mantle to the surface, solidifying to create new oceanic crust.

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