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What is NOT true regarding transform boundaries?
 
  A. Tectonic plates slip past each other laterally.
  B. Movement occurs along great vertical fractures.
  C. They neither create new crust nor destroy old crust.
  D. Theyre associated with very little seismic activity.
  E. They mostly coincide with midocean ridge systems.

Question 2

What plate boundary would be expected where a coastal mountain chain is in proximity to an oceanic trench?
 
  A. oceanocean convergent
  B. oceancontinental transform
  C. continentalcontinen tal convergent
  D. oceancontinental divergent
  E. oceancontinental convergent


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Reply #1 on: Jul 13, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

E


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