The Moon, Mercury, and Mars Do Not Have Plate Tectonics

question 6

Multiple Choice

The Moon, Mercury, and Mars do not have plate tectonics because

• A) they have cooled so rapidly that they do not have enough internal convection to break up their thick crusts
• B) they have no oceans for subduction and seafloor spreading to occur in
• C) impacts have filled in the plate boundaries essentially turning the process off
• D) their crusts have dried up and thickened so the crust cannot be broken up into plates

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