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What kind of plate boundary do you think the passage describes? Explain your answer. a) Convergent boundary b) Divergent boundary c) Transform boundary d) Subduction boundary

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Answer: Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Convergent boundaries -- where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another. Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.

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