Use the information you learned in the Plate Tectonics activity to answer the following question. When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate, __________.

At a convergent boundary between an oceanic plate and a continental plate, the denser oceanic plate sinks beneath the less-dense continental plate in a process called subduction. Therefore, the denser oceanic plate is pushed downward, which is choice D.

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