Which Tectonic Plate Setting Is Associated with the Following Features

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which tectonic plate setting is associated with the following features: volcanic eruptions; magma rises from deep in the mantle; can produce a chain of extinct volcanoes with increasing distance from the active volcano? Yellowstone National Park and Hawaiian islands are geographic examples.

• A) divergent plate boundary
• B) convergent plate boundary (subduction zone)
• C) convergent plate boundary (collision zone)
• D) transform plate boundary
• E) hotspot

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