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A mid-ocean ridge landform is found along the plate boundary between the South American Plate and African Plate.

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Earthquakes occur in a pattern along the plate boundary between the South American Plate and African Plate.

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The South American Plate and African Plate moved apart gradually at a divergent plate boundary.

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The continents of South America and Africa, where Mesosaurus fossils are located, are currently about 4,000 km apart and separated by the Atlantic Ocean. GPS measurements show that the South American Plate and African Plate are currently spreading apart from each other at a rate of 3.0 cm per year.

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The earthquakes along the plate boundary between the South American Plate and African plate tell us that the plates are moving. As plates move earthquakes happen.

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Earthquakes occur when plates move at plate boundaries. If there are earthquakes at the plate boundary between the South American and African plate, then there must be movement at the plate boundary.

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A landform is found along a plate boundary.

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the landlord is formed on one big plate and when the 2 plates spread apart they form a diverging ridge

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the mid-ocean ridge along the plate boundary between both plates means that its a divergent boundary because they move from each other.

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Because a mid-ocean ridge is found along the plate boundary that means it's divergent because mid-ocean ridges are a sign of divergent boundaries.

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The mid-ocean ridge

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Because of the mid-ocean ridge

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This evidence supports the claim because its shows how a mid ocean ridge is formed there. This matters because mid ocean ridges are form in divergent plate boundaries which move apart from each other. This suggest that this evidence supports the claim.

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This proves to the claim that they moved apart because mid-ocean ridges are only found in Divergent plates which move away from each other. Which means that the South American and African Plate moved apart slowly at a Divergent Plate Boundary

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This evidence is good because it shows how landforms can form at a plate boundary because of what the plates leave behind.

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the fossiles were both found on either side of the boundries

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Evidence Card D Supports Claim 2 Because it says it move at a rate of 3.0 cm witch is small and meaning it move gradually per year.

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It says the plates were sreading apart.

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This evidence supports this claim because it shows how much they seperate and spreading showing how its a divergent plate boundary. This matters because the claim talks about how its a divergent plate boundary which the evidence explain. Therefore this evidence supports the claim.

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The following evidence supports the claim because the evidence states that the plates are moving away from each other.

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That plates move only a few cenitmeters each year and they move very very slowly each year 

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That plates move only a few cenitmeters each year and they move very very slowly each year 

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Evidence card D supports

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The evidence claims

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they barley move 3 interstice in a year

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its because the mid ocean ridge.

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they barely move alittle bit in a year