MHS Geology: Module 16 - Mountain Building

What is the process of establishing a new level of gravitational equilibrium?

An example of folded mountains can be seen in

What type of mountains are produced by ocean-ocean convergence?

What type of mountains are produced by ocean-continental convergence?

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

The Black Hills of South Dakota are what type of mountains?

As erosion removes the tops of mountains, the crust will rise upwards. This is an example of

Which letter represents a fault-block mountain?

What mountains form when large regions of Earth’s crust are forced slowly upward without much structural deformation?

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

What type of faults are shown in the picture

Which letter represents a syncline?

What type of mountains are most common at divergent plate boundaries?

What type of stress is dominant at divergent plate boundaries?

What is the variation in elevations of Earth’s crust called?

What is the major type of stress that occurs at convergent plate boundaries?

In the picture, what structure is labeled A?

What do we call a large relatively flat-topped area that forms when a whole region is uplifted?

Which of the following is an example of fault block mountains?

Which of the following is an example of a mountain range formed at a divergent boundary?

What is the condition of equilibrium that describes the displacement of Earth’s mantle by Earth’s crust?

Which of the following is an example of mountains formed as a result of ocean-ocean convergence?

Which letter represents a normal fault?

What are thickened areas of continental material that extend into the mantle below Earth’s mountain ranges called?

What type of stresses have the rocks undergone to form the structures in this picture

What is most commonly formed by upfolding, or arching rock layers?

What are the forces and their directions that are in equilibrium between the crust and the mantle?

Which letter represents a folded mountain?

Which type of stress could cause folding of rocks?

What are linear downfolds in sedimentary strata?

What do we call any crustal fragments that have a geologic history distinct from that of the adjoining fragments?

What refers to all processes that form mountain ranges?

Which of these statements about the crust is true?

At continental-continental convergent boundary,

Which letter represents a dome mountain?

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

Which is NOT one of the four things that compressive forces at convergent plate boundaries cause?

In the picture, what is the structure labeled B?

Which picture shows the forces that form folded mountains, anticlines, and synclines?

Which of the following figures produces horsts and grabens?

Which letter represents an anticline?