Plate Tectonic Theory Is Based on ____

question 35

Multiple Choice

Plate tectonic theory is based on ____.

• A) ​a model in which cool material in the earth's crust rises and spreads laterally beneath the crustal plates
• B) ​the idea that Earth's crust is fragmented into rigid crusts that are sinking slowly beneath crustal plates
• C) ​the idea that sedimentary rock formation causes continents to drift apart slowly on their crustal plates
• D) ​observations that the sea floor is slowly spreading away from oceanic ridges, driven by plumes of magma welling up from Earth's interior
• E) ​evidence that severe disturbances in Earth's crust shaped the continents in a single large event

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