ES 9.2 QZ Mountain Building

The stress force that pulls rock apart

• Compression
• Shearing 
• Tension 

The stress force that squeezes rock together

• Compression
• Shearing
• Tension

The stress force that pushes rock masses in opposite, sideways directions 

• Compression
• Shearing 
• Tension

What type of mountain is formed by squeezing or compression of rock layers?

• Fault block mountain
• Folded mountain 
• Volcanic mountain 

What type of mountain is formed when an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate?

• Fault block mountain
• Folded mountain 
• Volcanic mountain 

What type of mountain is formed when rock layers are pulled apart and one block slides down while the other moves up

• Fault block mountain
• Folded mountain
• Volcanic mountain

Type of fold: downfolds or troughs

• anticlyns
• synclines
• monoclines
• benchmarks

The collection of processes that produce a mountain belt.

• orogenisis
• compressional forces
• folded mountains
• fault mountains

A good example of Folded Mountains are the _______________ _____________________.

• Teton Range in Wyoming

• Northern Rocky Mountains

• Sunrise Ridge

• Appalachian Mountains

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

• Dome

• Block

• Volcanic