Plate tectonics/Ocean & Atmospheric Circulation

Which process adds more crust to the ocean floor?

• earthquakes
• sea floor spreading 
• subduction
• convection

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Wilson provided an explanation to why the continents drift. This explanation is called the

• continental drift

• Pangea

• theory of plate tectonics

Tectonic plates are made of both crust and upper mantle that is also called the

• core

• aesthenosphere

• lithosphere

the layer of the upper mantle that lies below the lithosphere

• crust

• asthenosphere

• sea floor spreading

• core

the edge of a continent

• continental shelf

• continental margin

• continental slope

• continental rise

the innermost layer of the earth

• crust

• mantle

• core

the outermost layer of the earth

• crust

• mantle

• core

convergent boundary

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divergent boundary

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transform boundary

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