Question

Mountain ranges often appear on the edges of continents. What theory does this support?
Mountains were formed when Earth's crust cooled and Earth shrank.
Mountain ranges were formed when continents collided.
Mountain ranges did not exist millions of years ago.
Mountain ranges were formed only by glaciers.

Answer 1

Answer:

Mountain ranges were formed when continents collided.

Explanation:

Mountain ranges were formed when continents collided because collision causes plates to form mountains, also known as a convergent boundary.

Answer 2

Convergent boundaries are formed by the collition and subduction of plates, and the formation of mountains. Mountain ranges that appear on the edges of continents are usually the product of convergent boundaries.

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The crust is divided into many plates that move over the mantle and are limited by three types of boundaries.

Boundaries types:

I. Divergent:

II. Convergent.

III. Transforming.

Convergent boundaries

• They are the collision area between two plates.

• Two oceanic plates might collide, or one oceanic plate with a continental one.

• In this last case, the oceanic crust sinks under the continental plate, and magma rises to the surface by crevices.

• The thicker and older plate subduces under the other plate.

Mountain ranges that appear on the edges of continents are usually the product of convergent boundaries.

Plates collide, one of them subducts, and while doing so, deposits and sediments first produce islands, and then, as the plates keep moving, the mountain ranges are created.

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