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describe how convection currents in the mantle cause tectonic plates to move in one sentence

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Heat-driven convection in the mantle—where hot, buoyant rock rises and cooler, denser material sinks—creates horizontal flow that drags, pushes, and pulls tectonic plates apart at upwelling zones and toward subduction zones, driving their motion.