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A) The seafloor farther from the current hot spot has aged and cooled off, so the volcanoes eroded and sank below sea level.
B) The hot spot was less vigorous from 27 to 65 million years than subsequently.
C) The Pacific plate moved much faster during the period in question and there wasn't time to build tall volcanoes over the Hawaiian hot spot.
D) The intervening seafloor is thinner so it sat higher and eroded off all the volcanoes.
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A) divergent
B) transform
C) convergent
D) strike-slip
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A) Divergent and transform
B) Transform and convergent
C) Divergent and convergent
D) All plate boundaries have large magnitude earthquakes.
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A) hot spot track
B) oceanic volcanic rift zone
C) volcanic island arc
D) subsided and failed continental rift
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A) convergent
B) transform
C) divergen
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A) convergent
B) transform
C) divergen
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A) convergent
B) transform
C) divergen
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A) 11
B) 2
C) 7
D) 4
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A) divergent
B) transform
C) convergent
D) subduction
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A) nearly horizontal and pointing north
B) nearly vertical and pointing north
C) nearly horizontal and pointing south
D) nearly vertical and pointing south
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A) They are both active, convergent, continental-margin arc systems.
B) They both formed by continental rifting.
C) They both formed by continent-continent collision.
D) They are both unusual places where ocean crust overrode the continent.
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A) convergent
B) transform
C) divergen
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A) a tiny remnant of a once immense ocean that was closed as Africa moved into Asia
B) the site of a transform fault along which Arabia is moving away from Africa
C) a rift zone that may eventually open into a major ocean if Arabia and Africa continue to separate
D) a rare example of a two continent subduction zone where both the African and Arabian continental plates are both sinking under the Red Sea plate
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