Question

How did the South American Plate and African Plate move?

Answer 1

Answer:

The Mid Atlantic Ridge, like other ocean ridge systems, has developed as a consequence of the divergent motion between the Eurasian and North American, and African and South American Plates. ... In this way, as the plates move further apart new ocean lithosphere is formed at the ridge and the ocean basin gets wider

Answer 2

Answer:

• the South American plate and African plate move apart as a divergent boundary formed between them and the ocean basic form and spread.
• Earth plates move on the soft and solid layer a frog called the mantle.
• demo at an average rate about 3 centimetre per year.