The thickness of oceanic lithosphere is ____________.
A) uniformly 100 km
B) greatest at the geographic poles and least near the equator
C) greatest near the mid-ocean ridges and thins out away from the ridges
D) least near the mid-ocean ridges and thickens away from the ridges
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Q5: Continental lithosphere _.
A)is thicker than oceanic lithosphere
B)contains
Q8: Earthquakes are most frequent near coastlines that
Q10: The lithosphere of Earth can be bent
Q12: Deformed (bent,stretched,or cracked)lithosphere occurs _.
A)randomly over the
Q14: According to the figure below,every plate boundary
Q14: Under the theory of plate tectonics,the plates
Q15: All lithospheric plates are approximately the same
Q16: Broad,sediment-covered continental shelves are found along _.
A)active
Q17: The average thickness of continental lithosphere is
Q55: Tectonic plates move at rates that are
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