Vocabulary
Major Mountain Belt Building
Superlatives
Faulting
Folding
100
Craton
What is the stable, interior portion of the continent that has usually very old crystalline rocks?
100
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What is the number of stages in mountain belt building?
100
Where chimney tops can be found.
What is Great Smokey Mountains National Park?
100
Fractures in the crust along which movement has occurred.
What is faulting?
100
Rocks folded upwards into an arch.
What is anticline folding?
200
Dome
What is a large, upwardly bulging fold?
200
Accumulation Stage.
What is the stage that has a great thickness of sedimentary or volcanic rock that are deposited?
200
World famous for giant saguaro cactus.
What is the Saguaro National Park?
200
Hanging wall down, tensional forces pulling apart.
What is normal faulting?
200
Rocks folded downward into a trough.
What is syncline folding?
300
Deep ocean.
What is a chert formed in?
300
Mountain building stage.
What is the Orogenic Stage is also called?
300
The hottest, driest, lowest land in the United States.
What is Death Valley National Park?
300
Hanging wall up, compressional forces pushing blocks together.
What is reverse faulting?
300
A large upwardly bulging fold.
What is a dome?
400
Novaculite.
What is a slightly metamorphosed chert with cryptocrystalline structure?
400
Crustal extension, block faulting and uplift.
What is the stage during which surface weathering and erosion occur?
400
Contains trees that are up to 2,000 years old.
What is Redwood National Park?
400
A low angle reverse fault.
What is thrust fault?
400
A downwardly bulging fold.
What is a basin?
500
Quartzite.
What is metamorphosed sandstone?
500
Faulting and folding.
What is caused by the Orogenic stage?
500
Contains the highest point in lower 48 states.
What is Sequioa National Park?
500
Lateral movement.
What is strike-slip fault?
500
One side of the rock layer is folded down. Found in Capitol Reef National Park.
What is monocline folding?
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