Question

What type of plate boundary is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? How is land formed at boundaries such as this?

Answer 1

ANSWER:

• The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a tectonic plate or a middle ocean ridge that is situated along the bottom of the Atlantic.

• This plate boundary divides the plates of North America and Eurasia in the Northern Atlantic and the plates of South America and Africa in the Southern Atlantic Ocean.

EXPLANATION:

• This Mid-Atlantic ridge spreads at an average rate of about 2 and a half cm every year.

• The ridge was discovered back in 1872 by a group of the expedition by the British aboard HMS Challenger.

Answer 2

Its a divergent boundary. That when the plates move away from each other.