Sea floor spreading adds more crust to the ocean floor and at the same time older strips of rock move outward from either side of the ridge.
No, this is false!
The area called the "Rust belt" is called like this because it used to be an important place for the industry, but it's not anymore, so the machines can be said to have gotten "rusty". This is the reason for the name, not the weather.
Unsure. Although it has been proven that microorganisms can live out in space, no one has seen an organism native to planets besides Earth.