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Deformation
Page 204 - 206
Faulting
Page 206 - 207
Folded Mountains
Page 208
Fault-Block Mountains
Page 208
Volcanic Mountains
Page 209
100
This is the amount of force per unit area on a given material.
What is stress?
100
The blocks of crust on each side of the fault are called this.
What are fault blocks?
100
We call it FOLDING when stress causes rocks to do this.
What is bend?
100
This is what we call it when stress causes a rock to BREAK.
What is faulting?
100
When this erupts onto Earth's surface, volcanic mountains form.
What is molten rock?
200
This is the process by which the shape of a rock changes in response to stress.
What is deformation?
200
Faults are categorized into this number of types.
What is 3?
200
This what forms when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upward.
What are folded mountains?
200
The crust on each side of a fault is called this.
What is a fault-block?
200
At convergent boundaries, the motions of the plates cause THIS to rise beneath the plate.
What is "motion of the plates"?
300
This is what happens when stress causes rock layers to bend.
What is folding?
300
The three types of fault are categorized according to this. (First paragraph, page 206!!)
How the fault blocks move relative to each other?
300
Folded mountains form at convergent boundaries, where _________ have collided.
What are continents?
300
Fault-block mountains form when tension in the ______'s ______ causes the crust to break.
What is Earth's Crust?
300
Volcanic mountains can form both here, and on land.
What is "on the ocean floor"?
400
This is what happens when rock layers break from stress.
What is faulting?
400
These kinds of faults are caused by tension, or stress the pulls rocks apart.
What are normal faults?
400
When continents collide, compression does this.
What is "folds and uplifts the rock"?
400
Fault-block mountains form when tension causes large blocks of Earth's crust to do this relative to other blocks.
What is drop down?
400
Most of the active volcanic mountains on Earth have formed at this tectonically active spot.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
Rock reacts differently when different amounts of _______ are applied.
What is stress?
500
These types of faults are caused by rocks moving horizontally to each other.
What are strike-slip faults?
500
The Appalachian Mountains are an example of this.
What are folded mountains?
500
The Tetons are a range of these.
What are fault-block mountains?
500
This Northern Californian volcano, pictured in figure 6, is one of the many volcanoes in the Ring of Fire.
What is Mount Shasta?