Use the diagram below to answer the questions that follows. 1. Identify the three plates in the diagram and name the materials that make up each plate. 2. Which type of plate boundary occurs at Y. 3. What feature occurs at X and how does it form?

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Q: 3.Quartz is an example of rock-forming minerals Select one: 1. True 2. False

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