The mid-oceanic ridge is 80,000 km-long mountain range on the ocean floor. Where does this mountain range lie in terms of plate tectonic features?

What will be an ideal response?


where plates diverge

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A) low temperatures, humidity B) high temperatures, humidity C) low temperatures, dry air D) high temperatures, dry air

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The coastline is the same as the shoreline.

a. true b. false

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The Himalayan Range formed as a result of:

a. oceanic-oceanic plate collision. b. continental-continental transform faulting. c. continental-continental collision. d. oceanic-continental collision. e. continental-oceanic subduction.

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What type of rotating cloud develops from a funnel cloud or tornado and extends beneath a severe thunderstorm?

A) mammatus cloud B) roll cloud C) wall cloud D) suction vortices

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