Forces that shape the earth
Landforms and plate boundaries
Mountain building
continent building
Miscellaneous
100

These processes break down and remove parts of mountains.

What are weathering and erosion?

100

These are the forces that cause rocks to change shape

What are shear, tension, and compression stresses?

100

These are a special type of mountain as they form from volcanic eruptions

What are volcanoes?

100

Typically the highest elevations are found near this part of a continent

What is the coast?
100

This is the process of rocks changing from one type of rock to another type of rock

What is the rock cycle 

200

This process brings rocks from deep within the Earth closer to Earth's surface

What is uplift

200

These are underwater troughs created by one plate subducting under another plate 

What are ocean trenches?

200

As erosion removes the upper part of the crust of fold mountains these formations become visible.

What are folds?

200

These types of rocks make up the vast majority of continental interiors

What are metamorphic and igneous rocks?

200

This is a force acting on a surface

What is stress?

300

This process takes all types of rocks deep within the Earth where they are exposed to an increase of pressure and temperature

What is subduction?

300

This is where the hot mantle rises and pushes the seafloor upward, making a long tall ridge

What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge?

300

This type of mountain is made up of rocks that have very little deformation

What are uplift mountains?

300
These are areas of subsidence and regions with low elevation

What are basins?

300

These are created by tension stresses in the cold upper part of the crust

What are faults?

400

This is the downward vertical motion of Earth's surface

What is subsidence
400

This type of stress occurs when plates move apart and the Earth's crust is stretched.

What is tension stresses?

400

This is the term used to describe a volcano that is not currently erupting but may erupt again in the future

What is dormant

400
This plateau is home to the grand canyon

What is the Colorado plateau?

400

This creates a permanent change in a rock’s shape and affects hot or weak rocks

What is plastic strain?

500

Isostasy is the balance or ___________ between the continental crust and the mantle

What is equilibrium?

500

This landform is happens at a divergent plate boundary and eventually leads to a continent splitting into 2 parts

What is a rift valley?

500

This mountain's name means other side of the river

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

500

Uplifting and _____________ are the two ways that plateaus can form

What are volcanic eruptions?

500

When this process happens a mountain looses mass, in response the root under mountains must rise restore the balance between what is left of the mountain and how it floats on the mantle.

What is erosion?