Mountain Formations
This process involves the bending of Earth's crust to form mountains
What is folding?
Mountains often form at these types of plate boundaries where plates collide.
What are convergent boundaries?
This park in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho sits on a volcanic hotspot.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This U-shaped valley is formed by glacial erosion.
What is a glacial trough?
Compared to the Rockies, the Appalachians are generally this.
What are older and more eroded?
Mountains formed primarily by compression and folding are called these mountains.
What are folded mountains?
This occurs when one tectonic plate is forced beneath another.
What is subduction
This park in Montana is known for glacial valleys and rugged mountains.
What is Glacier National Park?
A sharp ridge formed between two glaciers is called this.
What is an arête?
Yosemite’s mountains are primarily made of this type of rock, unlike volcanic parks.
What is granite?
This type of mountain forms when large blocks of crust are uplifted along faults.
What is fault block mountains?
The Himalayas formed from the collision of these two types of plates.
What are continental plates?
This California park contains a massive granitic mountain range formed by uplift.
What is Yosemite National Park?
This bowl-shaped depression forms at the head of a glacier.
What is a cirque?
Glacier National Park shows more evidence of this process than Yellowstone.
What is glaciation?
The Appalachian Mountains are an example of this type of older, eroded mountain range.
What are ancient mountains?
This mountain range in North America formed from multiple tectonic events over time.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This park showcases volcanic mountains formed by subduction along the Pacific Ring of Fire.
What is Mount Rainier National Park?
A pointed peak formed by several cirques eroding a mountain is called this.
What is a horn?
Yellowstone differs from Rocky Mountain parks because it is centered on this feature.
What is a hotspot?
This term describes the building of mountains through tectonic forces.
What is orogeny?
This type of boundary can create volcanic mountain ranges like the Cascades.
What is an oceanic-continental convergent boundary?
This park is part of the Appalachian Mountains and is known for its biodiversity.
What are Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
This type of lake forms in a cirque after a glacier melts.
What is a tarn?
The Cascades differ from the Appalachians because they are this type of mountains.
What are volcanic mountains?