Vocabulary
Types of stress
Landforms
Mountains
Toss Up
100
This is the upward vertical motion of Earth's surface
What is uplift?
100
These are the three types of stress
What are compression, tension, and shear?
100
These are the landforms that are made as a result of compression
What are mountain ranges, ocean trenches, and volcanic arcs?
100
These are the four types of mountains
What are folded, fault-block, uplifted, and volcanic?
100
These are the two types of strain
What are plastic and elastic?
200
This is the downward vertical motion of the Earth's surface
What is subsidence?
200
This type of stress happens when rocks get pushed together
What is compression?
200
These are the landforms that occur because of shear stress
What are transform faults and fault zones?
200
This type of mountain is formed from eruptions of liquid rock
What is a volcanic mountain?
200

This is about how much tectonic plates move in one year

What is 1-9 mm (@2cm) per year?

300
This is the change in the shape of a rock caused by stress
What is strain?
300
This type of stress happens when rock gets pulled apart
What is tension?
300
These are the landforms that occur because of tension
What are mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts?
300

These types of mountains are formed when layers of rock get "bent"

What are folded mountains?

300
This is the type of boundary that causes mountains to form
What is a convergent boundary?
400
This is the equilibrium between the continental crust and the denser mantle below
What is isostasy?
400
This type of stress happens when rocks slide past each other
What is shear?
400
This landform occurs when there are many pieces of fractured crust
What is a fault zone?
400
This type of mountain occurs when parallel ridges form where blocks of crust move up and down
What is fault-block mountain?
400
These are the two types of motion
What are vertical and horizontal?
500
This is where blocks of crust slide horizontally past each other
What is transform fault?
500
This type of stress happens at a divergent boundary
What is tension?
500
This landform is a result of one plate subducting under another in an aquatic environment
What is an ocean trench?
500

This type of mountain forms when large regions form vertically

What is an uplifted mountain?

500
These are the processes involved in mountain-building
What are converging plates, collisions and rifting, weathering, and erosion and uplift?
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