Plate Tectonics and Rock Deformation Review

Question 1

After analyzing the data from the mid-Atlantic Ridge, Harry Hess proposed a theory called?

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Seafloor Spreading

Question 2

The single landmass of the Earth that began breaking up during the Mesozic Era.

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Pangaea

Question 3

Mountain shown in the picture, formed by magma that cools below the surface.

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Dome

Question 4

__________________ plate collisions cause immense deformation and an uplifting of mountains.

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Continental-Continental

Question 5

Mid-Ocean Ridges and Rift Valleys are typically associated with what type plate boundary?

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Divergent

Question 6

The layers of rock ABOVE the fault line (above the diagonal).

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Hanging Wall

Question 7

Plates of the lithosphere and the Earth’s crust riding on the asthenosphere forms what theory?

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Plate Tectonics

Question 8

This is an example of what fault?

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Strike-Slip

Question 9

The bending, tilting, and breaking of the earth’s crust is called

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Deformation

Question 10

Mountains composed of a series of grabens and horsts.

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Fault-Block

Question 11

The German scientist who proposed a hypothesis called continental drift.

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Alfred Wegener

Question 12

A reverse fault at a near-horizontal angle.

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Thrust Fault

Question 13

Upcurved bend within rock with the oldest layer in the fold (normally forming a ridge)

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Anticline

Question 14

The process in which a terrane becomes part of a continent is called

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Accretion

Question 15

Rock samples from the ocean were found to be how old compared to continental samples?

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Much younger

Question 16

A fault where the hanging wall slides down the foot wall

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Normal Fault

Question 17

Breaks in rocks with movement of rocks on one or both sides of the break.

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Faulting

Question 18

Alternating bands of magnetic fields within the rocks of the ocean floor is called:

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Paleomagnetism

Question 19

The force that pulls rocks apart.

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Tension

Question 20

Change in the shape or volume of rocks from stress of being squeezed, twisted, or pulled apart

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Strain

Question 21

There are how many identified major lithosphere plates?

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About 30

Question 22

Mountain with squeezed rock layers like an accordion.

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Folded

Question 23

Currents created by rising hot rock and sinking cool rocks is called

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Convection

Question 24

Balance between the crust pressing down on the mantle and the mantle pressing up on the crust

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Isostasy

Question 25

A group of adjacent mountain ranges form a

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Mountain System

Question 26

When rock responds to stress by permanently deform without breaking

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Folding

Question 27

Type of plate boundary where two plates grind past each other in sudden starts and stops.

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Transform

Question 28

A chain of volcanic islands formed by a convergent boundary is called:

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Island Arc

Question 29

The region along a plate boundary where one plate moves under another is called a

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Subduction Zone

Question 30

Movement of lithosphere plates is due to all of the following except

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Pull of Moon's Gravity, Thermal Convection

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