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Continental-continental convergence produces ___

• subduction zone
• folded mountains
• rift valley
• sea-floor spreading

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Flood water pounding against a canyon wall and wearing it down is an example of

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition
• An avalanche

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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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The Andes Mountains are formed by this type of plate boundary.

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform

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A flash flood washes away the side of a river bank

• Mechanical Weathering
• Chemical Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

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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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What could have caused the formation of layer D?

• Sea floor colliding

• An underwater trench

• A volcanic eruption

• Formation of a rift valley

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The lithosphere (crust) is broken into:

• tectonic plates

• fault lines

• tectonic trays

• fault plates

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A Barrier Island is long narrow island lying parallel and close to the mainland, protecting the mainland from erosion and storms. How are barrier islands created?

• a portion of the mainland is broken off because of plate tectonic movement; this creates a small barrier island

• waves and ocean currents carry sand and sediments and deposit them over many years causing a barrier island to form

• ocean currents shift and change direction causing the waves to reverse course and flow in the opposite direction and backfill sand creating a barrier island

• none of the above

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Acid rain slowly wearing away rock over time is an example of...

• chemical weathering

• physical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

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