the mid-atlantic ridge is where:?

Question

a. crust is being pushed up due to two colliding plates.
b. a plate is moving over a hot-spot in the mantle and the crust is therefore pushed upwards.
c. two plates are slepping past each other.
d. magma is rising and pushing up the crust due to melting of a sinking plate.
e. new lithosphere is being made.

Answer 1

The Mid-Atlantic

Answer 2

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mostly underwater mountain range of the Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean that runs from 87°N (about 333 km South of the North Pole) to subantarctic Bouvet Island at 54°S. The highest peaks of this mountain range extend above the water mark, to form islands. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge forms part of the global mid-oceanic ridge system and, like all mid-oceanic ridges, is thought to result from a divergent boundary that separates tectonic plates: the North American Plate from the Eurasian Plate in the North Atlantic, and the South American Plate from the African Plate in the South Atlantic. These plates are still moving apart, so the Atlantic is growing at the ridge, at a rate of about 5–10 centimeters per year in East-West direction.

Answer 3

It is "e". The mid-Atlantic ridge is the area where the two plates that make the Atlantic sea floor are moving away from one another, and molten magma comes up in the gap, creating new sea floor.

Answer 4

Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 5

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!!!

Answer 6

"e"--the two plates that "meet" in the mid-Atlantic are moving apart, and magma is rising and creating new lithosphere