When an Oceanic Plate Encounters a Lighter Continental Plate, It

question 5

Multiple Choice

When an oceanic plate encounters a lighter continental plate, it responds by ____.

• A)pulling carbon dioxide out of the air
• B)forming mountains
• C)releasing gases into the atmosphere
• D)a process called subduction
• E)lowering global surface temperatures

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values deviate from the mean.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, typically the mean, indicating the variability of an estimate.

Mean

The mean is the average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all together and then dividing by the count of those numbers.

Z-statistic

A statistical metric that measures the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean, used in hypothesis testing.