Answers MO-Earth and Space Science A Forces in Earth's CrustQuestion 3

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Forces in Earth's Crust

Question 3 • MO-Earth and Space Science A

Which best describes how wedge basins form?

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A

When two plates move apart, the weaker part of Earth’s crust moves down at normal faults where sediments are deposited until a basin forms.

B

At the area where two bent plates slide past each other, a depression forms where sediments are deposited.

C

When two plates collide, the non-subducting plate scrapes the subducting plate and forms a depression where sediments gather.

D

At the area of a depression between two plates, sediments continue to get deposited and become compacted.