The World's Tallest Mountains Were Formed by

question 38

Multiple Choice

The world's tallest mountains were formed by

• A)mechanical weathering.
• B)fluid basaltic lava flows.
• C)the collision of the Pacific and North American plates.
• D)the collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates.

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