Question

The Red Sea is a body of water formed where the African and Arabian plates are separating from one another. This sea is an example of a landform created by __________ movement.


A.

lateral plate


B.

convergent plate


C.

divergent plate


D.

transform boundary

Answer 1

C. Divergent plate because the African and Arabian plates are separating from one another.

Answer 2

Answer:

divergent plate

Explanation:

• The red sea represents a rift zone where the two tectonic plates spread from the centers. That is the African and the Arabian plate. It forms an extension of the dead sea transform fault system.  

• Magnetic anomalies suggest that this plate spreads at a rate of 1 cm/year. And is followed by a major seafloor spreading and the rift zone includes a basaltic strata volcano located at the northwest passage of the red sea.