Multiple Choice
A transform plate boundary is characterized by__________ .
A) composite cone volcanoes on the edge of a plate and shield volcanoes on the adjacent plate
B) a deep, vertical strike- slip fault along which two plates slide past one another in opposite directions
C) a divergent boundary where the continental plate changes to an oceanic plate
D) two, converging, oceanic plates meeting head- on and piling up into a mid- ocean ridge
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