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Question

The Atlantic Ocean is growing by a rate of about 2 centimeters per year due to the movement of lithospheric plates. This is evidence that today, Earth's geological processes
A.
continue at a faster rate than processes that occurred in the past.

B.
continue at a rate slower than processes that occurred in the past.

C.
continue similarly to those processes that occurred in the past.

D.
have reversed from the time when the Atlantic Ocean was shrinking.

Answer 1

C. continue similarly to those processes that occurred in the past.