Geologic Folding

What causes deformation of rock?

• Stress in the earth's crust
• water
• time
• tyme

What is a factor that influences the strength of a rock and how it will deform?

• temperature
• weight
• wind
• snow

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

The major force that forms folded mountains.

• compressional force
• impression force 
• depressions force
• plateau

True or False
Normal faulting occurs where tensional stresses cause the crust to be stretched.

• True
• False

True or False

Most mountain building occurs ate Convergent plate boundaries.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

________________ provides the compressional forces that fold, and metamorphose the thick layers of sediment.

• colliding plates

• grabens

• divergent boundaries

True or False

At a convergent boundary, a collision between two plates carrying continental crust will result in the formation of folded mountains.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The Hawaiian Islands are volcanic mountains that formed far from plate boundaries at a ______ ____________.

• ocean ridge

• normal fault

• hot spot

• coconut farm