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Which is the best description of a strike-slip fault

A fault that forms at a transform boundary

How is deposition a part of the erosion process

The part of the erosion process in which sediment is placed in a new location, or deposited.

What do geologists think happened during the last ice age

Sea levels dropped 300 feet.

A land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska

Which eras ended with a mass extinction

Mesozoic and Paleozoic

Having a weakness along a specific plane will allow a mineral to

cleave

If a population grows by 3 percent each year the growth of the population is

exponential

Which of the following is true of passive continental margins

they have a continental rise

What feature is the result of a glacier carving out rock as it moves

The feature that is the result of a glacier carving out rock as it moves is a roche moutonnees. It is a rock formation created by the passage of glacier ice.

Or a terminal moraine

What is lithification most closely related to

sedimentary rock formation

What happens at a convergent boundary

A convergent plate boundary is a location where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other, often causing one plate to slide below the others.

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