Plate Tectonics 2
Can tectonic plates fuse together to become one larger plate?
Yes ~ Eastern coast of North America
Which type of tectonic plates have the thickest crust?
Continental
What are faults?
Cracks in the rocks surface
What two formations does folding produce?
Anticlines and Synclines.
What is seismology?
The study of all things related to earthquake waves?
What are the two types of plates in plate tectonics?
Continental and Oceanic.
Where do most of the real changes to the Earth's crust occur at?
Plate boundaries.
The Appalachian Mountains are an example of what kind of mountain?
Fault Block Mountains
How are normal faults formed?
Through rock material being pulled apart
Where is an example of a strike slip boundary?
San Andreas Fault
Why does Minnesota not have any mountains, earthquakes, or volcanoes?
Be are near the center of the North American plate and the centers of plates are mostly inactive.
Where are most Volcanoes formed?
What are the three ways that mountains are formed?
Folding, faulting, and through volcanic activity
How are reverse faults formed?
Caused by rock materials being squeezed together.
What is an example of an island or islands formed from oceanic plates colliding with other oceanic plates?
Aleutian Islands, Japan, New Zealand, Caribbean, Philippines.
How were the islands of Hawaii formed?
Through hotspots
What kind of plate boundaries form the tallest and largest mountains?
Continental colliding with continental
What are fault block mountains?
How do strike slip faults form?
Caused by sheering forces.
What is the best example of a very tall mountain forming from continental plates colliding with each other?
Himalayan mountains.
What kind of plate boundary experiences the largest number of earthquakes?
What kind of plate boundary does not form mountains or volcanoes?
Strike Slip Boundaries.
Which kind of mountain forming will occur if the force applied is slow and weak?
Folding
What kind of mountain forming will form if the force applied is sudden or very strong?
Faulting.
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What is Loess? What is Moraine?
Moraine: Piles of till either pushed to the front or to the side of a moving glacier
Loess: Rich soils formed from the deposition of materials picked up by deflation