Geography
Geography, 23.08.2019 04:20, Vetinthemaking21

Question 71 (1 point)
deep-ocean trenches mark the sites where lithospheric plates are subducting back into the mantle.
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question 72 (1 point)
clastic particles in a sedimentary breccia are rounded and are about the same size as fine-grained sand.
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question 73 (1 point)
the first sign of a tsunami's approach is a rapid retreat of water from the shoreline.
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question 74 (1 point)
you are monitoring a seismograph in seattle. one morning, your instrument records an earthquake approximately 2000 km away. from that information, can you determine where the earthquake occurred?
question 74 options:
yes, because seismographs can indicate direction as well as distance.
no, because seismographs can't pick up earthquakes from that far away.
yes. you could take the distance and match it up with known fault lines to find the epicenter.
no, because you would need information from more than one seismograph to plot the epicenter.

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