Mountain Formation

Once the elastic limit of rock is surpassed, what may occur?

An accumulation of different rocks combined with scraps of ocean crust is called a(n)

Erosion removes the tops of mountains, the crust will rise upwards. This is an example of ____.

In Figure 11-1, what is the structure labeled B?

A fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall is a ____.

The major forces that form folded mountains are ____.

As heat and pressure increase, ductile deformation ____.

Which of the following combinations should favor folding rather than faulting?

Deformation that permanently changes size and shape without fracturing is called ____.

All changes in the original shape and/or size of a rock body are called ____.

What is associated with the process of orogenesis at divergent boundaries?

Which mountain range was formed by a continental-continental convergent boundary?

What type of faults are shown in Figure 11-1?

Which of the following lists includes the major types of mountains?

Compressional stresses can result in the formation of ____.

In Figure 11-1, what structure is labeled A?

In mountainous regions, the continental crust is ____.

What is an example of mountains that formed as a result of ocean-continental convergence?

Orogenesis is a ____.

Faults in which movement is horizontal and parallel to the fault surface are called ____.

The collision and joining of crustal fragments to a continent is called continental ____.

A material that undergoes tensional stress tends to ____.

At a continental-continental convergent boundary, ____.

What is an example of mountains formed as a result of ocean-ocean convergence?

Folding is usually the result of ____.

What type of stresses have the rocks undergone to form the structures in Figure 11-1?

An example of folded mountains

Tensional stresses commonly cause which of the following?

How are mountains classified?

The thickest part of the crust occurs in ____.