Q: Upwelling mantle at the mid-ocean ridge pushes plates in which direction?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Plates move for two reasons. Upwelling mantle at the mid-ocean ridge pushes plates outward. Cold lithosphere sinking into the mantle at a subduction zone pulls the rest of the plate down with it.

 Choices:

- eastward

- inward

- westward

- outward


A:
outward