Question 1
The ________ is an example of an active, continent-continent collision.
◦ westward movement of the South American plate over the Nazca plate
◦ northward movement of India into Eurasia
◦ northern movement of Baja California and a sliver of western California toward the Hawaiian Islands
◦ Arabian Peninsula slamming into North Africa under the Red Sea
Question 2
Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for ________.
◦ sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle at a subduction zone
◦ transform faulting between an oceanic plate and a continental plate
◦ rising of hot asthenosphere from deep in the mantle
◦ rifting beneath a continental plate and the beginning of continental drift