A#7 10.2 Mountains Reading Check Quizizz

The youngest mountains that are still forming have...

• rolling hills and valleys

• jagged or sharp features and peaks

• flat plains

• rivers

The jagged features of the picture show a mountain that is...

• young and still forming

• formed long ago

The rolling hills that are covered in forests, tell us that the mountain is...

• young and still forming

• formed long ago

The stress force that pulls rock apart

• Compression
• Shearing 
• Tension 

The stress force that squeezes rock together

• Compression
• Shearing
• Tension

Mountains made of huge rocks separated from other rocks by faults are ____ mountains.

• folded
• volcanic
• fault-block
• upwarped

Tremendous pushing forces cause a squeezing of rock layers in ____ mountains.

• fault-block
• folded
• upwarped
• volcanic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

These are formed from magma rising & pushes overlying sedimentary rock upward to form a “dome” shape

• Upwarped mountain

• Fault-Block mountain

• Hot Spot Volcanic mountain

• Folded mountain

An example: Mt. Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of what type of mountain?

• Hot Spot Volcanic Mountain

• Upwarped Mountain

• Fold Mountain

• Fault-Block

Example: Teton Range in Wyoming is what type of mountain?

• Fault-Block

• Upwarped Mountain

• Hot Spot Volcanic Mountain

• Subduction Zone Volcanic Mountain