Forces that Shape Earth
a change in a rock’s shape due to stress
What is Strain?
Some of Earth’s tallest mountain ranges form as the result of this type of stress.
What is compression?
Folded mountains form as the result of
What is compression?
These two processes help continents grow?
What are volcanism and fragment addition?
The highest mountains form at this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent.
Earth’s mountains float in balance on top of the mantle as the result of this.
What is isostasy?
Folded mountain form perpendicular to the direction of the stress found at this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
This type of mountain is formed when tension stresses act on rock.
What are fault-block mountains?
On most continents, the land area with the highest elevation is found here.
What are the edges of the continent?
The fact that land surface is high where the crust is thick is due to this...
What is isostasy?
a vertical downward movement of the crust
What is subsidence?
The San Andreas system is an example of this.
What is a fault zone?
What process, or type of stress, acts on rock to form fault-block mountains?
What is tension?
The Colorado Plateau was formed by this force.
What is uplift?
A volcanic arc may form here when an oceanic plate is subducted by a continental plate.
That is the edge of the continental plate.
What can bring deeply buried rocks to Earth’s surface?
What is uplift?
When an oceanic plate is subducted into the mantle, these two landforms often appear parallel to each other.
What are an ocean trench and a volcanic arc?
These types of mountains form when large areas move up with little deformation.
What are uplifted mountains?
Much of the central part of North America is categorized as this form of land.
What is a plain?
This is the reason plastic deformation occurs in the lower crust.
What is heat?
Which part of the rock cycle process is caused by plate motion?
What is subduction?
Fracture zones are commonly found at this type of landform.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
These two processes break a mountain down.
What are erosion and weathering?
As mountains erode, sediments can accumulate in this nearby land form.
What is a basin?
This area of North America has most recently grown due to volcanic activity.
What is the west coast?