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1 .       The lithosphere consists of both crustal rocks and a portion of the upper mantle. 

 
 


2 .       Transform faults join two segments of a mid-ocean ridge. 

 
 


3 .       The rate of plate movement is measured in kilometers per year. 

 
 


4 .       In North America, the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada system are continental volcanic arcs associated with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere. 

 
 


5 .       The "Ring of Fire" is an area of earthquake and volcanic activity that encircles the Pacific Ocean basin. 

 
 


6 .       To explain continental drift, Wegener proposed that the continents broke through the oceanic crust, much like ice breakers cut through ice. 

 
 


7 .       Seafloor spreading is the mechanism that has produced the floor of the Atlantic Ocean during the past 165 million years. 

 
 


8 .       According to the results of your Net Search, the JOIDES Program office is located at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 

 
 


9 .       The supercontinent of Pangaea began breaking apart about 200 million years ago. 

 
 


10 .       Lithospheric plates are thickest in the ocean basins. 

 
 


11 .       The unequal distribution of heat inside the Earth generates some type of thermal convection in the crust that ultimately drives plate motion. 

 
 


12 .       Slab-pull is probably the least important of all proposed mechanisms of plate motion. 

 
 






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