The Plate Tectonic Activity That Gave Rise to Orogens Around

question 38

Short Answer

The plate tectonic activity that gave rise to orogens around much of the circum-Pacific orogenic belt was ____________________.

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Definitions:

Gonochorism

A reproductive system in some animals in which individuals are distinctly male or female, with no change in sex occurring throughout their life span.

Transsexuality

A phenomenon in which a person is intent to live through actions, dress, hormone therapy, and/or surgery as a gender other than that assigned at birth. Most (but not all) transsexuals engage in some process of altering either primary or secondary sexual characteristics through hormone treatment or surgery or both.

Cross-dressing

The act of wearing clothes traditionally worn by the opposite sex, often for personal, entertainment, or expression purposes.

Transgender Group

A community or collective of individuals whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.