Mountain Building HMH U2 L5 Exit Ticket

What is deformation in the context of mountain building?

• The process by which mountains are eroded by wind and water

• The bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust

• The cooling and solidification of magma into rock

• The accumulation of sediment in river valleys

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is folding ?

• The breaking of rock due to intense heat

• The melting of rock under extreme pressure

• The bending of rock layers due to stress

• The layering of sediment in water

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What is a fault?

• A type of mountain

• A layer of coal

• A break in the Earth's crust where blocks of crust slide relative to each other

• A large river valley

In what direction does shear stress move?

• Box

• Diagonally

• Horizontally

• Vertical

What is tension?

• The pressure from overlying rock layers

• The stress that pulls rocks apart

• The stress that pushes rocks together

• The heat from the Earth's core affecting the rocks

What is compression ?

• The bending of rock layers

• The melting of rocks

• The stress that squeezes rocks together

• The cooling of molten rock

Which of the following is NOT a type of mountain?

• Folded

• Volcanic

• Plateau

• Sedimentary

What are the two kinds of folds?

• Right-lateral and left-lateral

• Anticline and syncline

• Normal and reverse

• Oceanic and continental

Which of the following is a kind of fault?

• Delta

• Normal

• Basin

• Plateau

What are the three kinds of faults?

• Normal, reverse, and strike-slip

• Anticline, syncline, and monocline

• Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic

• Convergent, divergent, and transform

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-1