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1 .
The lithosphere consists of both crustal rocks and a portion of the upper mantle.
True
False
2 .
Transform faults join two segments of a mid-ocean ridge.
True
False
3 .
The rate of plate movement is measured in kilometers per year.
True
False
4 .
In North America, the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada system are continental volcanic arcs associated with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere.
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False
5 .
The "Ring of Fire" is an area of earthquake and volcanic activity that encircles the Pacific Ocean basin.
True
False
6 .
To explain continental drift, Wegener proposed that the continents broke through the oceanic crust, much like ice breakers cut through ice.
True
False
7 .
Seafloor spreading is the mechanism that has produced the floor of the Atlantic Ocean during the past 165 million years.
True
False
8 .
According to the results of your Net Search, the JOIDES Program office is located at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
True
False
9 .
The supercontinent of Pangaea began breaking apart about 200 million years ago.
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False
10 .
Lithospheric plates are thickest in the ocean basins.
True
False
11 .
The unequal distribution of heat inside the Earth generates some type of thermal convection in the crust that ultimately drives plate motion.
True
False
12 .
Slab-pull is probably the least important of all proposed mechanisms of plate motion.
True
False
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