Read carefully through the following sentence, and decide which of the options is correct. Most mountain belts form near convergent plate boundaries where crust thickens by tensional shortening and by intrusion and crystallization of magma.
A) The word "tensional" should be replaced by "compressional."
B) The word "convergent " should be replaced by "divergent."
C) The word "near" should be replaced by "far from."
D) The word "crust" should be replaced by "mantle."

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The word "tensional" means pulling apart, whereas in a convergent boundary the two plates are colliding and the crust is being compressed, so the correct word would be "compressional."

Read Carefully Through the Following Sentence, and Decide Which of the Options