Orogenies are associated with ________.
A. transform plate boundaries
B. divergent plate boundaries
C. convergent plate boundaries
Answer: C
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Complete the defining features matrix by checking the box of the feature used to identify the boundary. Select all that apply for an ocean-ocean plate boundary.
- High heat flow
- Youngest seafloor age
- Shallow earthquakes (0-30 km deep)
- Moderate depth earthquakes (30-300 km deep)
- Deep earthquakes (300+ km deep)
- Earthquakes get deeper in one direction
- There is a trench
- Seafloor get shallower
- There are high mountains
- There are volcanoes on land
- There is an island arc of volcanoes
- Plates move apart
- Plates move together
- Plates slide past one another
Why is sedimentary rock found in basins?
A) The whole Earth is a basin. B) Volcanoes eject sedimentary materials into basins. C) Clastic sediment erodes from high-standing areas and is transported primarily by water to be deposited in low areas. D) Plate boundaries grind together at basins to form sediment.
Prior to making landfall, the characteristics of Hurricane Sandy changed and it was, therefore, reclassified as a post-tropical storm
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Numbered meridians ________
A) are semicircles B) are east-west lines C) diverge as they near the poles D) are the same thing as parallels E) are numbered from 0-100 in three hemispheres