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Mountain Building

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the 3 types of Mountains?
a)
Volcanic, Block, Slide
b)
Block, Fold, Explosive
c)
Fold, Voclanic, Blocl
d)
Fold, Volcanic, Cube
2.
What is one example of a real life fold mountain?
a)
The Alps
b)
The Sierra Nevada Range
c)
The Harz Mountains
d)
Maunaloa Volcano
3.
What is the most common type of mountain?
a)
Big
b)
Volcanic 
c)
Block
d)
Fold
4.
Approximately how many mountains are there in the world?
a)
1 million
b)
10,500
c)
50,000
d)
3,000
5.
How long does it take for a mountain to form?
a)
100 million years
b)
Less than 5 months
c)
20 years
d)
657 years
6.
What are the 2 types of folding?
a)
Top and bottom
b)
Strike-Slip
c)
Anticlines & Sinclines
d)
Anclone & Sinclone
7.
What are the 3 types of faults?
a)
Fall, Normal, Backwards
b)
Strike-Slip, Normal, Reverse
c)
Strike-Slip, Forwards, Backward
d)
Normal, Strike, Crack
8.
How do Block Mountians form?
a)
By Mother Nature pulling them up with her hands
b)
By faults being raised or tilted
c)
By blocks of rock forming
d)
By gravity
9.
How do Volcanic Mountains form?
a)
By molten rock from underneath the surface coming up
b)
By plate tectonics pushing against each other
c)
By lava erupting over and over again
d)
By magma cooling
10.
What is a real life example of a block mountain?
a)
The Alps
b)
The Hearts Mountains
c)
The Sierra Mist Range
d)
The Harz Mountains