Geology Fun
Earthquakes occur when these collide, separate, or slide past each other
What are plates?
At a transform boundary, you might find this type fault
What is a strike-slip fault?
Fault-block mountains undergo this type of stress
What is tensional?
Mount Fuji is this type of volcano
What is a stratovolcano?
Volcanoes usually occur at this type of boundary.
What are convergent boundaries?
Folded mountains are formed by this type of stress
What is compression?
A series of normal faults produce this type of mountain
What are fault- block mountains?
This fault is caused by compression
What is a reverse fault?
The type of boundary where the largest earthquakes occur
What are Convergent Boundaries?
This stress pulls the earth apart, thinning it in the middle
What is tension?
These are mountains created when two plates collide and are the most common type of mountain
What are folded mountains?
This arch that bends upward is created by compression
What is an anticline?
This fault results when two plates move past one another, with little or no up or down movement.
What is strike-slip?
The type of boundary that undergoes tensional stress
What is a Divergent Boundary?
The Himalayas were formed by this type of stress
What is compression?
Mauna Loa is this kind of volcano that doesn't erupt, but flows
What is a shield volcano?
This arch that bends downward is created by compression
What is a syncline?
A series of normal faults can form this German named rock formation
What is a horst and graben?
The type of boundary that undergoes shear stress
What is a Transform Boundary
When enough stress builds up in a rock, the rock breaks, forming this crack
What is a fault?
The Tetons is this this type of mountain that contains normal faults as well as Horst and Grabens
What is a Fault Block Mountain?