Mountain Formation
What type of stress causes rock layers to bend and form folded mountains?
What is compression?
Which U.S. national park is known for the Rocky Mountains?
What is Rocky Mountain National Park?
What is a slow-moving mass of ice that shapes mountains?
What is a glacier?
What happens to temperature as elevation increases?
What is it decreases?
Which park has more active glaciers, Denali or Rocky Mountain?
What is Denali National Park?
What type of boundary forms most large mountain ranges?
What is a convergent boundary?
Which mountain range runs along the western edge of South America?
What are the Andes Mountains?
What U-shaped landform is created by glaciers?
What is a glacial valley?
What is the tree line?
What is the highest elevation where trees can grow?
Which mountains are older, Rockies or Appalachians?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
What mountain range formed from the collision of India and Asia?
What are the Himalayas?
Which national park is home to Denali, the tallest mountain in North America?
What is Denali National Park?
What process wears down mountains over time?
What is erosion?
What effect causes one side of a mountain to be dry?
What is the rain shadow effect?
Which park would likely show more erosion: a young or old mountain range?
What is an old mountain range?
What type of mountains are formed when large blocks of crust are tilted or uplifted?
What are fault-block mountains?
Which mountain range stretches across Europe and includes peaks in Switzerland?
What are the Alps?
What is the term for rocks and sediment carried by glaciers?
What is moraine?
Which side of a mountain usually gets more precipitation?
What is the windward side?
Which park is more likely to have sharp, jagged peaks young or old mountains?
What are young mountains?
What is the name of the process that builds mountains?
What is orogeny?
Which U.S. mountain range is one of the oldest and heavily eroded?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
What type of weathering involves ice breaking apart rock?
What is frost wedging?
What climate is typically found at the top of very high mountains?
What is alpine climate?
Why do older mountains appear more rounded than younger ones?
What is due to long-term erosion and weathering?