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beccaep

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on: Aug 7, 2018
If you were hiking through the Rocky Mountains and saw a sharp ridge of peaks that looked a bit like the teeth of a saw, you might reasonably conclude that it had been shaped by what?
 
  A) Erosion from winter snow packs.
  B) A strike-slip fault that caused uplift.
  C) Two parallel glaciers in the valleys on each side.
  D) Tectonic activity.

Question 2

Valleys that have been formed by glaciers have what form?
 
  A) U-shaped
  B) V- shaped
  C) Either form
  D) Neither form


Liamb2179

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Reply #1 on: Aug 7, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

A


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