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A cliff formed near the ocean.  Which statement best describes how this cliff formed?

• Warm air melted the rock.
• Sun rays evaporated the rock.
• Ocean waves washed away rock.
• Plant roots pushed away the rock.

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Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide
• Two oceanic plates pull apart
• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
• Two continental plates pull apart

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Lichen secretes an acid that breaks down rock.

• Mechanical Weathering
• Chemical Weathering

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Over millions of years, the shape of mountains on Earth's surface can change to low hills and then rolling plains. These changes are most likely caused by-

• Folding and faulting

• Volcanoes and Earthquakes

• Human activity

• Weathering and Erosion

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Which blue arrow is pointing to the newly formed crust?

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Which correctly identifies the geologic process that formed the Himalayan mountains (The World's Tallest Mountains, including Mt. Everest)?

• Two continental plates converging

• An earthquake in a subduction zone

• A tectonic plate moving over a hot plate

• Movement at a transform fault boundary

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How does freezing water cause the weathering of rocks? The freezing water—

• keeps the rocks in place

• makes the rocks last longer

• expands, cracks, and breaks rocks

• causes rocks to fall in landslides

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The process where oceanic crust slides under another plate and is melted is called ___________.

• seafloor spreading

• subduction

• continental drift

• recycling

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Plates Rub Against Each Other

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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Boundary between two colliding plates (plates are moving toward each other), often associated with mountain building, ocean trenches and volcanic islands

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Subduction

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