Vocabulary
Forces that shape Earth
Land forms at Plate Boundaries
Mountain Building
Continent Building
100
The downward vertical motion of Earth's surface
What is subsidence
100
Continental crust changes over time due to
What is plate tectonics and erosion.
100
Compression, tension, and shear stresses are
at work at plate boundaries
100
The processes of weathering and erosion can remove part or all of a
What is mountain
100
Usually the middle of a continent is only _____________ above sea level
a few hundred meters
200
Squeezing stress
What is compression
200
Rocks can change when stress acts on them which is better known as
What is strain
200
The largest landforms on Earth are produced by
compression at convergent plate boundaries
200
The Appalachian Mountains are an old mountain range that stretches along most of the
What is Eastern United States
200
Continents can break up and get smaller or
they can get bigger
300
Flat regions with high elevations
What is plateaus
300
The forces that cause plate tectonics produce
What is horizontal motion
300
forms in the ocean where plates converge and one plate subducts under another one
What is Volcanic Mountains
300
Rocks that are deeper in the crust are warmer than rocks closer to
What is Earth's Surface
300
Have great economic importance
What is Basins
400
When large regions rise vertically with very little deformation
What is uplifted mountains
400
Mountains and valleys form where plates collide, move away from each other, or
slide past each other
400
this acts like a putty
What is the warm lower part of the crust
400
As the crust thickens, the upper part of the crust rises to
What is maintain isostasy
400
An example of an uplifted plateau
What is The Colorado Plateau
500
Where tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other
What is transform faults
500
Located on the West Coast of the United States
What is Rocky Mountains
500
creates faulting at Earth's Surface
What is shear stresses
500
The middle part of the _______, tension can pull crust apart.
What is continent
500
Grow, shift, and shrink
What is continents
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