Miscellaneous Vocabulary
Types of Stress
Folds and Faults
Types of Mountains and Landforms
Mountains and Plates
100

This type of deformation allows rocks to bend or flow.

What is ductile deformation?

100
A change in the original shape and/or size of a rock body is called this.
What is deformation.
100
This is a type of fold that 'sinks' downward.
What is a syncline.
100
These mountains are created at divergent plate boundaries when cracks in the Earth's crust force some materials up and others down.
What are fault-block mountains.
100
This type of mountain is formed by subduction at oceanic convergent plate boundaries
What is a volcanic mountain.
200
This is the side of a fault you could walk up.
What is a footwall.
200
The force that causes rock deformation (either "S" word!).
What is stress or strain.
200
This is the type of fault where the hanging wall moves DOWN in relation to the footwall, caused by tensional stress.
What is a normal fault.
200
Compressional stress forms this type of mountain.
What is a folded mountain.
200
Folded and volcanic mountains are formed at this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent?
300
This type of deformation causes hard rocks to break.
What is brittle deformation?
300
The type of stress that involves pulling or stretching.
What is tensional stress.
300
This is a type of fold that 'arches' upward.
What is an anticline.
300
When rock is uplifted by magma below the surface and produces a circular structure, this is what it's called.
What is a domed moutain?
300
Some volcanic mountains can form far away from plate edges at places called ___.
What are hot spots
400
This is the part of the fault that drops down in fault block mountains
What is the graben?
400
The type of stress that involves squeezing is called this.
What is compressional stress.
400
This is a type of fault where the hanging wall moves UP in relation to the footwall, caused by compressional stress
What is a reverse fault.
400
The Appalachians and the Alps are this type of mountain.
What are folded mountains?
400
This type of plate boundary forms fault block mountains along ocean ridges.
What is a divergent boundary.
500
This is a large, step-like fold in horizontal layers.
What is a monocline.
500
These are the four factors that influence rock deformation.
What are temperature, pressure, rock type and time?
500
The San Andreas is this type of fault.
What is a strike-slip fault.
500
These mountains are formed at divergent plate boundaries along normal fault lines
What are fault block mountains?
500
This type of deformation results in folded mountains
What is ductile?
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