Along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, tectonic plates are primarily moving _____.
A. toward each other
B. away from each other
C. sideways past each other
D. so slowly that they are almost not moving at all
It is the result of a divergent plate boundary that runs from 87° N – about 333 km (207 mi) south of the North Pole – to 54 °S, just north of the coast of Antarctica.