Multiple choice

Which of the following is correct about the plate boundaries?

  1. The sites where the plates move away from each other are called diverging sites.

  2. The American Plates are separated from the Eurasian and African Plates at the pacific ridge.

  3. The location where sinking of a plate occurs is called a suction zone.

  4. Divergent boundaries are where the crust is destroyed as one plate has dived under another.

  5. Transform faults are the planes of separation generally perpendicular to the mid oceanic ridges.
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Explanation

This is the correct statement. The crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other at the transform faults. Transform faults are the planes of separation generally perpendicular to the mid oceanic ridges.

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