16 Mountain Building

what is the definition of a mountain building

• The geological processes, such as tectonic plate movement and volcanic activity, by which mountains are formed.

• the 6th planet from the sun

• captain corsener

• building on a mountain

• tectonic movement upon a building

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folding is a result of _____ stress

deformation is....

• all changes in the original shape and/or size of a rock body

• change

• captain corserner

• The geological processes, such as tectonic plate movement and volcanic activity, by which mountains are formed.

• the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.

three stresses found in rocks

• magma

• tensional

• compressional

• shear

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fault block mountains are results of...

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• tectonic stress

• tensional stress

• the ring of fire

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compressional stress happens at _______ boundaries

• divergent

• tectonic stess

• captain corserner

• convergent

what is the process of mountain building

• strike-slip faults

• tectonic movement

• orogenesis

• gravity

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factors of how rocks form

• molten pressure

• temp

• pressure

• tectonic pressure

Catskills and Pike's Peak are examples of which type of mountain?

• dome mountains

• fault block mountains

• folded mountains

• Plateau

Which type of stress pulls rock apart like stretching a rubber band?

• tension

• shearing

• strike-slip

• compression