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Select the correct answer.

The oceanic Nazca plate is being subducted beneath the continental South American plate. Which type of plate boundary is this?
OA continental-oceanic convergent
ОВ. oceanic-oceanic convergent
OC divergent
OD. strike-slip
ОЕ.
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Answer 1

A. continental-oceanic convergent

Step-by-step explanation:

I knew it couldn't be B because it's oceanic and continental, not oceanic and oceanic.

Next, I noticed the word convergent, which implies "coming together" to me.

I looked it up and noticed the term convergent referred to a plate boundary where a plate slips under (subducted) another, so I knew it was A.

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