The Himalaya Mountains were built when two tectonic plates, the Indio-Australian Plate and Eurasian Plate collided, millions of years ago. The place where two plates collide and build a new surface feature like the Himalaya Mountains is called what?

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Responses
A divergent plate boundarydivergent plate boundary
B transform plate boundarytransform plate boundary
C convergent plate boundaryconvergent plate boundary
D subduction plate boundary

Answer 1

The place where two tectonic plates collide and build a new surface feature, like the Himalaya Mountains, is called a convergent plate boundary. Therefore, the correct answer is:

C. convergent plate boundary