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QUESTION 17 Which is least dense? O Oceanic lithosphere O Continental lithospher

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QUESTION 17 Which is least dense? O Oceanic lithosphere O Continental lithosphere o Asthenosphere O Mantle QUESTION 18 Which of the following is an example of brittle deformation? O Pressing on a spring and seeing it rebound O Denting the fender of a car O Throwing a hammer through a glass windowpane O Squeezing a rubber b aeing it bounce back QUESTION 19 Which of the following makes it possible for oceanic crust created at divergent boundaries to be carried to the sites of destruction at convergent boundaries? O Seawater seeping into plate fractures to lubricate the rocks O Alignment of magnetic fields in iron particles O Transform boundaries that accommodate plate motion O Magma plutons weighing the crust down at convergent boundaries, pulling the slab QUESTION 20 Which physical property is responsible for determining how Earth materials separate into interior layers? O Molecular charge O Tensile strength Color Density

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17-continental lithosphere

18-throwing a hammer through a glass windowpane

19-transform boundaries that accomodate plate motion

20-density