Of the three types of plate boundary interactions shown in Figure 19.3, characterize the following plate boundaries:
a) On the ocean floor south of Alaska:
b) Indian Ocean between the Antarctic and Indo-Australian plates:
c) Beneath the Red Sea:
d) Along the west coast of Central America:
e) Through Iceland:
f) Along the northeast coast of the Persian Gulf:
g) In California between the Juan de Fuca plate and the North American plate:
a) subduction / convergence
b) divergent
c) rift / transform
d) subduction / convergence
e) sea-floor spreading / divergence
f) collision crush zone / convergence
g) transform
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false