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Which statement explains how convection currents affect the movement of plates?

A-gravity pulls one edge of a plate down into the market which causes the rest of the plate to move as well

B-heat from earths interior causes lithospheric plates to collide at convergant plante boundaries causing volcanos

C-heat from earths interior causes currents of hot rising magma and cooler sinking magma to flow moving the crust along with them

D-as convection currents drift across the oceans they bring pieces of earths crust with them as the supercontinent breaks apart​

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Answer:

It's C.

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Answer:

C)Heat from Earth's interior causes currents of hot rising magma and cooler sinking magma to flow, moving the crust along with them.

Step-by-step explanation:

Movement of plates when heat is transferred to the surface by high convection currents that is moving around in the aesthenosphere.During this process magma with plumes that is less dense forcefully break the plates apart around the middle so that divergent plate boundaries can be established.

The more the plates move away from the middle the more they become cool,as the process continue, those basalt rocks that exist in the trenches zone of the ocean with high density at the ocean crust is destroyed, so that the crust would be able to be recycled into the aesthenosphere afterward.

Therefore, the statement that explain how convention current affect the movement of plate among the given option is when heat from earths interior causes currents of hot rising magma and cooler sinking magma to flow moving the crust along with them

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