Weegy: Seismic waves causes potential energy that accumulates in a fault to transfer to the surface during an earthquake.
User: All of the following are extrusive landforms except
Question 4 options:
A)
batholiths.
B)
shield volcanoes.
C)
geysers.
D)
lava plateaus.
Weegy: All of the following are extrusive landforms except geysers.
User: Which of the following is an example of an epeirogenic process?
Question 5 options:
A)
A rift valley forms at a divergent boundary where two plates are stretched apart.
B)
Mountains form along a convergent plate boundary when an oceanic plate slips beneath a continental plate, resulting in an End of exam upward force on the continental plate.
C)
A large plateau forms in the interior of a continental plate when a large section of the plate rises evenly due to an even expansion of the underlying mantle.
D)
Mountains form along a convergent plate boundary when two plates collide, causing rock to bunch and buckle upward.
Weegy: A large plateau forms in the interior of a continental plate when a large section of the plate rises evenly due to an even expansion of an underlying mantle. - is an example of an epeirogenic process.
User: Which of the following geological features forms at a subduction zone between an oceanic and a continental plate?
Question 7 options:
A)
The lithosphere
B)
Continental shelf
C)
Magnetic anomalies
D)
Mid-ocean ridge
Weegy: Mid-ocean ridges forms at a subduction zone between an oceanic and a continental plate.
User: _______ processes form mountains due to deformation at a plate boundary.
Question 8 options:
A)
Epeirogenic
B)
Viscoelastic
C)
Orogenic
D)
Taphrogenic
Weegy: Orogenic processes form mountains due to deformation at a plate boundary.
User: Which natural process is responsible for ridge push?
Question 9 options:
A)
Seafloor spreading
B)
Reversal of Earth's magnetic field
C)
Mantle convection
D)
Subduction
Weegy: Mantle ...
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