What are terranes? What will be an ideal response?


Terranes are fragments of seamounts, island arcs, and small pieces of continents that were carried on
oceanic plates that collided with continental plates and then were added to the continental margins

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Older lithosphere is destroyed in association with ________

A) deep-sea trenches B) fracture zones C) hydrothermal vents D) mid-ocean ridges E) spreading centers

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The concept of “disproportionality” accounts for which of the following outcomes or consequences?

a) Different economic actors have more or less impact on the environment. b) Most pollution comes from a small number of economic actors. c) The treadmill of production theory may not apply unilaterally to everyone. d) All of the above.

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The sharp boundary between a lake's warmer epilimnion and cooler hypolimnion is called the benthos.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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The process by which water is evaporated from the surface of plants is called ____________________

Fill in the blanks with correct word

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