1st Hour Ch 11 Vocab Quiz

the bending, braking or tilting of the Earth’s crust

• Deformation
• Isostacy
• Fault
• Fold

the equilibrium between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere with gravity pushing down and buoyancy pushing up 

• Lithospheric adjustment
• Isostacy
• Stress
• Strain

the amount of force per unit area that acts on a rock

• Stress
• Strain
• Torque
• Gravity

any change in a rocks shape or volume caused by stress

• Stress
• Strain
• Torque
• Isostacy

a bend in rock layers that results from stress

• Stress 
• Strain
• Fold
• Fault

a break in rock layers that results from stress

• Fault
• Fold
• Stain
• Stress

a series of mountains in the same place, created in the same way at the same time

• Mountain Range
• Orography
• Plateau
• Volcano

a mountain that forms when rock layers are squeezed together and uplifted

• Folded Mountain
• Dome Mountain
• Fault-block Mountain 
• Volcanic Mountain

a mountain that forms where the Earth’s crust breaks into large pieces and some blocks drop down relative to other pieces

• Folded Mountain
• Fault-block Mountain
• Volcanic Mountain
• Dome Mountain

a circular or elliptical mountain pushed up by a pocket of magma

• Dome Mountain
• Fault-block mountain
• Volcanic Mountain
• Folded Mountain