Mountain Building
What are the three stages of mountain building?
What are accumulation, orogeny, and uplift/erosion?
What kind of fold looks like an arch?
What is an anticline?
What do you call a break in Earth’s crust with movement?
What is a fault?
Which river runs through Grand Teton National Park?
What is the Snake River?
What’s the metamorphic order from shale to gneiss?
What is shale to slate to schist to gneiss?
What is the stable, old center of a continent called?
What is the craton?
What kind of fold looks like a trough?
What is a syncline?
What are the two parts of a fault?
What are the hanging wall and footwall?
What caused the steep faces of the Tetons?
What is faulting?
Which metamorphic rocks have visible layers?
What are foliated rocks?
What is it called when continents grow from plate collisions?
What is tectonic accretion?
What kind of fault has the hanging wall move down?
What is a normal fault?
What kind of large fold forms a bulge?
What is a dome?
What desert landform is fan-shaped and made by water?
What is an alluvial fan?
What type of rock are chert and novaculite?
What are hard, fine-grained sedimentary or low-grade metamorphic rocks?
Which stage of mountain building involves folding and faulting?
What is orogeny?
What kind of fault has sideways movement?
What is a strike-slip fault?
What kind of large fold forms a dip or bowl?
What is a basin?
What type of valley is created by a dropped hanging wall in the Tetons?
What is a fault-block valley?
What region are Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains located in?
What is the Blue Ridge Province?
What happens to mountains during the final stage of mountain building?
What is uplift and erosion?
What’s the difference between a joint and a fault?
A joint has no movement; a fault has movement.
What kind of faults are normal and reverse faults?
What are dip-slip faults?
What causes flat roofs and floors in Lehman Cave?
What are flat rock layers from sedimentary deposition?
What makes Cades Cove flat and fertile?
What is limestone bedrock and erosion?