What Type of Stresses Broke Earth's Lithosphere into Plates

question 103

Multiple Choice

What type of stresses broke Earth's lithosphere into plates?

• A)impacts of asteroids and planetesimals
• B)internal temperature changes that caused the crust to expand and stretch
• C)the circulation of convection cells in the mantle,which dragged against the lithosphere
• D)cooling and contracting of the planet's interior,which caused the mantle and lithosphere to be compressed
• E)volcanism,which produced heavy volcanoes that bent and cracked the lithosphere

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