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(1) Earth's crust is made up of relatively rigid plates that ride atop Earth's hot, semiliquid mantle. (2) The plates are called tectonic because they're in constant motion. (3) They can move because Earth's mantle is a very hot and semiliquid fluid called magma. (4) Volcanoes are a result of magma rising up or erupting through a plate, particularly where plate boundaries are moving against each other. (5) Also, when plates slide against each other, causing friction along adjacent plate boundaries, earthquakes frequently occur. (6) Therefore, we often find volcanoes and earthquakes along plate boundaries. (7) Plates may also collide. (8) When that happens, mountain ranges are formed. (9) For example, the collision of the plate carrying the Indian subcontinent created the Himalayan Mountains when it collided with the Asian plate.

Which statement about this paragraph is accurate?

A. The author uses comparison and contrast to organize ideas.
B. There are no supporting details for the main idea
C. There is no single topic sentence
D. The topic sentence is the found in the last line. 

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The answer is most likely C.

The correct answer is the following: option C. The most accurate statement about the paragraph presented in the question is that there is no single topic sentence. When writing, a single topic sentence is the one that will state which is the purpose of the paragraph being written. Normally the topic sentence is located at the beginning of each paragraph, although it is not a necessity to do so. In the paragraph shown in the question, there are 9 different sentences, that all correlate to each other and give sense to the paragraph, but there is not a single topic sentence that explains the main purpose of the text or paragraph.

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