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This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa.  What are these evidence for?

• Africa has always been near the equator
• Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate
• The continents have not moved
• sea floor spreading

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How might a weathered mountain appear different than an unweathered mountain?

• Weathered mountain would be taller.
• Weathered mountain would be rounder and less jagged.
• Weathered mountain would be more jagged and less rounded.
• Weathered mountain would have no trees.

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This boundary is described as moving toward one another  When the plates are both continental plates the will crumple up and form a mountains. When they are continental and oceanic plates, subduction occurs  and earthquakes and volcanoes form. 

• Convergent Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Transform Boundary

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A topographic feature formed by the processes that shape Earth's surface

• Structure
• landform
• Biosphere
• Biome

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The Himalayan mountains are shown on the map. Four students were asked to identify the geologic process that caused this mountain range to form. Which student correctly identified the geologic process that formed the Himalayan mountains?

• student 1: two continental plates converging
• student 2: an earthquake in a subduction zone
• student 3: a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot
• student 4: movement at a transform fault boundary

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A rock breaking apart by cracking or by acid rain are examples of

• weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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fossil fuels react with water producing acid rain that wears minerals away in the rock

• chemical weathering
• mechanical weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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Waves erode and change the shape of -

• Coastlines

• Canyon walls

• Crater rims

• Deltas

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The Himalayas are an example of what happens at a?

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• allegiant boundary

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When a river current erodes the banks of the river, the interaction is between the __________ and the _____________.

• atmosphere and hydrosphere

• biosphere and geosphere

• hydrosphere and geosphere

• atmosphere and biosphere

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