Motions
The Rocky Mountains in the west are high peaks.The Appalachian Mountains are ?
What are Lower and Gently rounded peaks?
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Compression,Tension, and Shear Stresses work at where?
What are Plate Boundaries?
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When Plates collide at a Plate Boundary
A combination of Folds, Faults, and Uplift creates Mountains
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The highest elevations located near the edges of continents
What are the middle of the continents?
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There are four kinds of rocks in continental interiors
What is Stable,Flat, Very Old, and very strong?
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Pieces of Earth rise up Vertically and form Mountainous Regions?
Continents rise above the seafloor because continental crust is made of rocks?
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The Largest Landforms on Earth are produced by Compression at what?
What are Convergent Plate Boundaries.
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Mountains are made of layers of rock that are folded.
Folded Mountains
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A plate carrying fragments reaches a continent at a convergent boundary
The least dense fragments get pushed onto the edge of a continent?
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An extensive area of level or rolling land
What are Plains?
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Plates boundaries apply greater force to rocks
What is Horizontal Motion?
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The three kinds of Landforms that are created by Compression?
What are Mountain Ranges,Ocean Trenches, and Volcanic Arcs
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Mountains form where Blocks of Crust in Faults
Fault-Block Mountains
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What would happen if rocks were not on or in the continents?
Rifting would change their sizes and shapes.?
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Areas of Subsidence and Regions with Low Elevation?
What are Basins?
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The four types of stress in horizontal motion?
What are Compression,tension, Shear and Strain Stresses?
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A Landform that creates Tension
Plates move apart, and Tension Stresses stretch Earth's Crust?
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The Rocks of the Sierra Nevada Range
What are Granite rocks which are igneous rock?
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Fragments in the western U.S. include volcanic arcs,ancient seafloor and what other fragment?
Small Pieces from other continents.?
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Most of our Energy Resources are extracted
What are Sedimentary Basins?
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The Hotter Lower Crust and Upper Mantle tend to deform plastically like putty
What are Rocks?
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When plates slide horizontally past each other
What are Shear Stresses produce transform boundaries?
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The four kinds of mountains
Folded,Fault-Block,Uplifted, and Volcanic Mountains?
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One way Continents get bigger
What is The addition of igneous rocks by erupting volcanoes?
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Some regions are flat with high elevations.
What are Plateaus?
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