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WorksheetsMountain Building
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins
What does the movement of tectonics plates cause?
Stress on rocks.
Deposition of sediments
Erosion of rocks
All of the above.
What occurs during folding?
Rocks change color.
Rocks form and create a landslide.
Rock layers combine to create a mountain.
Rock layers bend under stress.
What are two types of folding?
Horizontal and Vertical
Synclines and Anticlines
Up and down
Bottom and Top
How do Volcanic mountains form?
Rock combines with water to create a tight structure for a mountain.
Compressional stress causes blocks to fold and move upward.
Molten rock erupts on earth surface, and creates a mountain structure.
Rock and lava form a beach.
How do Fault-Block mountains form?
Tension pushes the blocks of lithosphere on top of each other.
Tension makes the lithosphere break into many pieces causing some to fall relative to others.
Shear stress makes the mountains break.
Compression makes the mountains rise up.
How do Folded Mountains form?
Tension breaks the lithosphere into pieces causing some to fall relative to others. .
Magma erupts from the crust.
Compression causes layers to be squeezed and pushed upward.
all of the above
Mountains are formed by _________________.
weathering
tectonic plates
erosion
the rock cycle
What does the movement of tectonics plates cause?
mountains to form
mountains to disappear
faults
All of the above.
This is an example of a/an
anticline
syncline
This is an example of a/an
anticline
syncline
Imagine that two thick sponges are next to one another on a table in front of you.
Picture the sponges as two of Earth's tectonic plates.
Remember that tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's lithosphere.
Think of the table as the part of Earth beneath the lithosphere.
What do you think will happen if you slowly push the sponges together?
compression will put the sponges under stress and deform them
tension will put the sponges under stress and deform them
shear stress will put the sponges under stress and deform them
What does the movement of tectonics plates cause on rocks?
Places stress on rocks.
The rocks disappear.
The rocks start to erode.
All of the above.
A spike-strip fault is caused by?
shear stress
tension
compression
A reverse fault is caused by?
shear stress
tension
compression
Normal faults are caused by?
shear stress
tension
compression
which type of fault is common where there are divergent boundaries? Remember that divergent means tending to be different or develop in different directions.
spike-strip fault
normal fault
reverse fault
The stress that is formed when rocks are pushing in opposite direction at a transform boundary.
compression
tension
shear stress
Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle!
tension
compression
shear
rubber-binder
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
___________ may squeeze rock until it bends into a new shape, or until the rock breaks or moves.
compression
tension
shear stress
__________ occurs when a rock is being stretched or pulled apart.
tension
compression
shear stress
____________ happens when rock structures are being pushed in parallel but opposite directions.
Compression
Shear stress
Tension
The process that causes rocks to break because of stress.
fold
fault
syncline
anticline
What kind of fault is shown here?
spike-strip fault
reverse fault
normal fault
This is an example of a ______________ fault.
reverse fault
normal fault
spike-strip fault
What kind of fault is shown here?
reverse fault
normal fault
spike-strip fault
What are the four types of mountains? We haven't covered uplifted aka Dome, yet, but it is one.
volcanic, uplifted, eroded, weathered
Volcanic, Uplifted, Fault-block, Folded
Folded, Uplifted, Plateau, Convergence
uplifted , Plateau, Basin, Faut-block
Formed when tension causes large blocks of Earth’s crust to drop down relative to other blocks
Block
Dome
Volcanic
These are formed by magma rising up from the mantle to the crust of the Earth
Volcanic
Fold
Dome
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
convergent, divergent, transform
divergent, convection, transform
transform, insurgent, convection
Parallel ridges that form where blocks of crust move up o down along faults.
Uplifted Mountain
Volcanic Mountain
Fault-block Mountain
None of the above
How are fold mountains formed?
These mountains form when faults or cracks in the earth's crust force some materials or blocks of rock up and others down. Instead of the earth folding over, the earth's crust fractures (pulls apart). It breaks up into blocks or chunks.
Formed when molten rock (magma) deep within the earth, erupts, and piles upon the surface. Magma is called lava when it breaks through the earth's crust. When the ash and lava cools, it builds a cone of rock.
When two or more of Earth's tectonic plates are pushed together. At these colliding, compressing boundaries.
