Forces that Shape Earth
Landforms and Plate Boundaries
Mountain Building
Continent Building
Misc.
100
What is the equilibrium between continental crust and the denser mantle below it?
Isotasy
100
What kind of landform is formed by compression?
Mountains.
100
Why are mountain ranges made of many different type of rock?
They are result of many different plate collisions.
100
Where on continents are high elevations found?
On the edges.
100
Which type of strain permanently changes rock?
What is Plastic strain.
200
The downward vertical motion of Earth's surface is called?
What is subsidence.
200
What is the name of the landform that forms as a deep underwater trough created by one plate subducting under another?
Ocean trench
200
What is the name of the complicated mountain range in the US?
What are the Appalachian Mountains
200
Where are the low elevations found on continents?
Interior of continents
200
An area of many fractured pieces of crust along a large fault is called a ?
What is fault zone
300
What is the vertical upward motion of Earth's surface?
What is uplift
300
A curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to a plate boundary is called a_______________?
What is a volcanic arc
300
How does metamorphic rock which is deep inside the earth, make its way to the surface?
What is isostasy
300
What is an extensive area of level or rolling land?
What is a plain
300
What kind of fault do forms when tectonic plates slike horizontally past each other?
What is a transform fault
400
What are the tree types of stress?
What is compression, tension, and shear.
400
The Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of Washington and Oregon is what kind of landform?
What is a mid-ocean ridge
400
Folded mountains are made of layer of rocks that are ?
What is folded
400
A basin is an area of low elevation and is important because?
It contains important resources such as coal, oil and gas.
400
When large regions rise vertically with very little deformation you get ?
What are uplifted mountains
500
A change in the shape of rock caused by stress is called?
What is strain.
500
Iceland is studied by many Geologists because there are few places in the world where there is a _____________?
What is continental rift
500
What are parallel ridges that form where blocks of crust move up or down along faults?
What are Fault Block Mountains
500
Name two ways Plateaus can form
Uplift and lava flows
500
Name three ways continents change over time.
grow, shrink and shift
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