PLS ANSWER ASAP DUE IN 20 MINS Match the geographical features with the descriptions.

1. active volcano near Guatemala City
2. highest nonvolcanic mountains in Central America
3. lake occupying an ancient volcanic basin and surrounded by three volcanoes
4. river flowing south of the Sierra de las Minas before emptying into the Gulf of Honduras
5. northern lowlands covered with rain forest rich with plants and wildlife

a. atitlán
b. cordillera de los cuchumantes
c. petén
d. motagua
e. pacaya

Explanation:

Santa María, a stratovolcano in the volcanic highlands of southwestern Guatemala, is the site of one of the twentieth century's largest eruptions. It is also the home of Santiaguito, one of the most active lava dome complexes in the world. The group of four lava domes formed at the foot of Santa María twenty years after the volcano's devastating 1902 eruption, and the domes have been growing ever since. The currently active dome, El Caliente, is the site of regular ash-and-gas explosions, and this minor but persistent activity has drawn many tourists to catch a glimpse of explosive silicic eruptions.

Santa María is located in the volcanic highlands of Guatemala, which parallel the Pacific coast of the country. The highlands were formed by the subduction of the Cocos plate under the Caribbean plate, which resulted in the formation of a line of stratovolcanoes that stretches along much of the Pacific coast of Central America. In Guatemala, these volcanoes overlie a basement of carbonate as well as igneous and metamorphic rocks; many xenoliths ("foreign" rock fragments) found in lavas erupted from the stratovolcanoes are composed of limestone, granite, and gneiss.

answer; continuous;

answereruption of molten material; magnetic stripes in the rock of the ocean floor; the age of the rocks themselves;