8. Be able to recognize the features on a figure of an ocean-continent convergent plate boundary in detail. Details required: show the layers of the Earth involved and label them with their name (oceanic crust, continental crust, mantle, lithosphere/plate, asthenosphere), arrows showing motion of the plates, the trench, the volcanic arc, and where melting occurs, and how forms.

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8. Be able to recognize the features on a figure of an ocean-continent convergent plate
boundary in detail. Details required: show the layers of the Earth involved and label them with
their name (oceanic crust, continental crust, mantle, lithosphere/plate, asthenosphere), arrows
showing motion of the plates, the trench, the volcanic arc, and where melting occurs, and how
forms.
Transcribed Image Text:8. Be able to recognize the features on a figure of an ocean-continent convergent plate boundary in detail. Details required: show the layers of the Earth involved and label them with their name (oceanic crust, continental crust, mantle, lithosphere/plate, asthenosphere), arrows showing motion of the plates, the trench, the volcanic arc, and where melting occurs, and how forms.
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