A student places an open hardcover book face down on a table. Slowly, he pushes the two halves of the book toward each other. Which geologic process is he trying to model?
A)
mountain building
B)
Sediment deposition
C)
sea floor spreading
D)
divergent plate boundaries
The two faces of the book represent the tectonic plates As he presses them towards each other he is modeling a convergent boundary, and mountains are an affect of convergent plates.
