Convection Cells or Currents

question 81

Multiple Choice

Convection cells or currents

• A) move large volumes of rock and heat within the earth's mantle like giant conveyer belts
• B) occur during tsunamis and create an effect of amplifying the waves that repetitively strike a shoreline
• C) operate in the ocean and in the atmosphere, but not in any part of the lithosphere
• D) are part of the process of earth movement during earthquakes
• E) are a feature of the mantle that geologists are just beginning to recognize, but as yet do not understand

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