How are mountains formed at convergent boundaries?

What will be an ideal response?


At convergent plate boundaries, mountains form from crustal thickening and uplift by compression. Mass is also added by volcanic and plutonic rocks.

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The "Velvet Divorce" refers to the political division of:

A. Ireland and Northern Ireland. B. the Czech Republic and Slovakia. C. Croatia and Yugoslavia. D. Spain and Catalonia.

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What separates one cyclothem from another in a sequence?

A)an erosional surface B)a body of water C)a craton D)a mobile belt E)a clastic wedge

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About half of Earth's crust consists of compounds containing

A) carbon dioxide. B) ozone. C) oxygen. D) nitrogen. E) argon.

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Underneath the Gulf of Mexico there is an estimated forty billion barrels of oil. Extracting this resource is complicated as much of it lies eight miles below the surface of the water

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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