Read carefully through the following sentence, and decide which of the options is correct. Most mountain belts form near convergent plate boundaries where crust thickens by tensional shortening and by intrusion and crystallization of magma

A) The word "tensional" should be replaced by "compressional."
B) The word "convergent " should be replaced by "divergent."
C) The word "near" should be replaced by "far from."
D) The word "crust" should be replaced by "mantle."


Answer: A

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