SSC
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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How does accretion cause continents to grow outward?
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Moving plates squeeze Earth’s surface until it buckles.
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Magma builds up to fill in space between plates.
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Debris from the leveling off of underwater mountains piles up.
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Erosion moves soil to edges of continents.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Divergent boundaries–where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other.
Detailed explanation-2: -Orogeny, or mountain building, is the result of collision between two landmasses. This may occur via collision of continental crust (continent-continent collision) or when oceanic and continental crust collide (ocean-continent collision).
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