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Ineffective Behavioural Responses to Stressors Include All of the Following

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Ineffective behavioural responses to stressors include all of the following, EXCEPT:


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Ridge Push

A plate-driving force that results from the tendency of an oceanic plate to slide down the sloping lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary near a mid-ocean ridge.

Upwelling Mantle

Refers to the process where hotter, less dense mantle material ascends towards the Earth's surface, typically at mid-ocean ridges or hotspots.

Mantle Convection

Movement of mantle material in response to variations in density, especially those caused by differences in temperature.

Asthenosphere

A semi-fluid layer beneath the Earth's lithosphere on which the tectonic plates move, located in the upper mantle between approximately 100 and 250 kilometers deep.

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