The answer is D. Sentence 7. When it says "plates may also collide", it is bringing up another topic about the plates. As you read past sentence 7, you notice a shift in topic as you are reading. Instead of plates sliding against each other, the speaker is now talking about them colliding.
Answer: Die is a denotative word and pass away is a connect word
Explanation: This is because die is the literal meaning of pass away so it is denotative.
While, pass away is a connecative word because it is a conjuction of two words, it is used just when we do not want to say a being has died. So pass away will literally mean die.
