Question

Of the choices below, select the one that accurately pairs the feature with the type of plate boundary at which it occurs. a. Accretionary prisms occur at divergent boundaries. b. Black smokers occur at consuming boundaries. c. Median valleys occur at transform boundaries. d. Trenches occur at subduction zones.

Answer 1

d. Trenches occur at subduction zones.

Step-by-step explanation:

A landform refers to a geomorphic or natural feature of the Earth's surface, which typically makes its terrain. Some examples of landforms on planet earth are mountain, plains, volcanoes, valley, hills and plateau.

Basically, the tectonic plates such as the oceanic and continental lithosphere interact in three (3) ways and these are; divergent, transform and convergent boundaries.

A convergent plate boundary can be defined as a boundary where two (2) plates move towards each other, usually, resulting in subduction or collision.

Simply stated, a subduction zone is an area where subduction occur.

Hence, it is a zone which represents the collision between the two (2) tectonic plates of planet Earth. Subduction zone occurs in countries such as Japan, Canada, Indonesia, Russia, Alaska, and around the Pacific Ocean.

Generally, subduction zones are responsible for high intensity earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis around the world.

As a result of subduction which causes a plate to be forced underneath the mantle, deep ocean trenches are formed such as the Mariana trench.