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What land feature will likely form at the boundary between the Pacific and Nazca plates?

Group of answer choices

a continental rift

a mountain

a deep-sea trench

a mid-ocean ridge

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Question 102 pts
Which type of mountain is characterized by sedimentary rock that buckles, breaks, and forms layers exposed by erosion?
Group of answer choices

folded mountains

tilted block mountains

deep-sea trenches

fault-block mountains

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Question 112 pts
Which type of rock fault occurs when one piece of rock dips down?
Group of answer choices

reverse fault

strike-slip fault

oblique fault

normal fault

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Question 122 pts
Scientists know earthquakes tend to happen in an area every ten years, and eight years have passed since the last earthquake. What type of data are they using to predict when the next earthquake will occur?
Group of answer choices

warning systems

stress accumulation

precursors

past patterns

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Question 132 pts
What finally caused scientists to accept the plate tectonics theory?
Group of answer choices

Fossil evidence of supercontinents like Pangaea

Ocean floor evidence of seafloor spreading

Magnetic pole wandering alignment of repositioned plates

Matching glacier scraping patterns on the coasts of different contents

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Question 142 pts
What does magnetic striping on the ocean floor provide evidence of?
Group of answer choices

convergent boundaries

seafloor spreading

transform boundaries

deep-sea trenches

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Question 152 pts
What type of weathering occurs when bacteria colonies grow on rocks?
Group of answer choices

chemical weathering

chemical biological weathering

physical weathering

physical biological weathering

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Question 10: a mid-ocean ridge

Question 11: folded mountains

Question 12: normal fault

Question 13: past patterns

Question 14: Ocean floor evidence of seafloor spreading

Question 15: seafloor spreading

Question 16: chemical biological weathering