The Geological Process of Subduction (Characterized by One Plate Sliding

question 71

Multiple Choice

The geological process of subduction (characterized by one plate sliding under another) accounts for

• A) volcanic activity associated with the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
• B) the creation of the Himalayan mountain range.
• C) the formation of stromatolites.
• D) the crater off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
• E) the San Andreas Fault.

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Definitions:

Accounting Department

The division within a business that is responsible for managing the financial records, payroll, receivable and payable accounts, and financial reporting.

Passive Continental Margin

A region where the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate boundary occurs.

Oceanic Ridge

Underwater mountain systems formed by plate tectonics, consisting of continuous volcanic mountain chains in the ocean.

Trench

A narrow, steep-sided, elongate depression of the deep seafloor, formed by bending down of a subducting oceanic plate at a convergent plate boundary; includes the deepest parts of the ocean.