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Mountains and Geologic Structures

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 46mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of FOLD is shown here?

a)

Anticline

b)

Syncline

c)

Monocline

2.

Which type of fault is this?

a)

Normal

b)

Reverse

c)

Strike-slip

d)

Your's

3.

Which type of force is involved with this type of fault?

a)

Compression

b)

Tension

c)

Shear

d)

"THE"

4.

Which wall is at "B"?

a)

Hanging wall

b)

Foot wall

c)

"Another brick in the wall"

d)

Berlin Wall

5.
What causes deformation of rock?
a)
Stress in the earth's crust
b)
water
c)
time
d)
tyme
6.
What is a factor that influences the strength of a rock and how it will deform?
a)
temperature
b)
weight
c)
wind
d)
snow
7.
Type of fold: downfolds or troughs
a)
anticlyns
b)
synclines
c)
monoclines
d)
benchmarks
8.
The collection of processes that produce a mountain belt.
a)
orogenisis
b)
compressional forces
c)
folded mountains
d)
fault mountains
9.
The major force that forms folded mountains.
a)
compressional force
b)
impression force 
c)
depressions force
d)
plateau
10.
True or False
Normal faulting occurs where tensional stresses cause the crust to be stretched.
a)
True
b)
False
11.
True or False
Grabens produce an elongated valley borded by horsts.
a)
True 
b)
False
12.

True or False

Most mountain building occurs at Convergent plate boundaries.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

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

a)

colliding plates

b)

grabens

c)

divergent boundaries

14.

True or False


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

a)

True

b)

False

15.
What type of stress is this?
a)
compression
b)
shearing
c)
tension
16.
a)
normal fault
b)
reverse fault
c)
strike-slip fault
17.
a)
normal fault
b)
reverse fault
c)
strike-slip fault
18.
The cat is standing on the...
a)
foot wall
b)
hanging wall
c)
left
d)
weirdest elevator ever
19.
What type of deformation is this rock displaying?
a)
brittle 
b)
ductile
c)
normal fault
d)
reverse fault
20.
What part of a fold is pictured here?
a)
upfold
b)
downfold
c)
anticline
d)
syncline
21.
What type of boundary experiences shearing stress?
a)
Transform
b)
Convergent
c)
Divergent
d)
Strike-slip
22.
Which fault doesn't move up or down?
a)
Strike-slip
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
d)
Shearing
23.
Which of these are types of mountains?
a)
rolling, glacial, subterranean, cascades
b)
rocky, green, smoky, white
c)
fault-block, dome, volcanic, folded
d)
salt-block, dome, magnum, frozen
24.

When two tectonic plates collide, the continental crust usually rises over the

oceanic crust. What is the reason behind this?

a)

Denser than continental crust

b)

Thicker than continental crust

c)

Thinner than continental crust

d)

Less dense than oceanic crust

25.
Which stress causes no land to be gained or lost?
a)
compression
b)
tension
c)
shearing
26.
a)
normal fault
b)
reverse fault
c)
left lateral strike-slip fault
d)
right lateral strike-slip fault
27.
a)
normal fault
b)
reverse fault
c)
right lateral strike-slip fault
d)
left lateral strike-slip fault
28.
How do faults and folds compare?
a)
Faults are bends in rock where rocks move, and folds are breaks in rocks.
b)
Faults are breaks in rock where rocks move, and folds are bends in rock.
c)
Faults are breaks in rock where rocks do not move, and folds are bends in rock.
d)
Faults are bends in rock where rocks do not move, and folds are breaks in rock.
29.

It refers to the force exerted over an area which causes a deformation in the Earth's crust.

a)

Stress

b)

Strain

30.

It is a type of crustal deformation that were formed by brittle strain.

a)

Folds

b)

Faults

31.

TRUE OR FALSE:

Too much compression on folds may lead to the formtion of faults.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

TRUE OR FALSE:

Overturned folds are asymmetrical.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

TRUE OR FALSE:

Monocline folds has a V shape structure

a)

True

b)

False

34.

The term plunging means to say that the fold is in an inclined or horizontal position.

a)

True

b)

False

35.

TRUE OR FALSE:

A basin is an anticline in an upside down position.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

Brittle deformation happens in ______ conditions

a)

Hot

b)

Cold

37.

____-Slip Faults move horizontally with respect to each other.

a)

Dip

b)

Strike

c)

Oblique

38.

Compression happens in which dip-slip fault?

a)

Normal

b)

Hanging

39.

TRUE or FALSE: In anticlines, the oldest rocks are on the outermost part of the fold.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

40.
What type of fault is the San Andreas?
a)
Convergent
b)
Transform
c)
Optimus Prime
d)
Divergent
41.

Isostatic adjustments occur in

a)

the ionosphere

b)

volcanoes

c)

the lithosphere

d)

in the core

42.

What happens when two oceanic plates collide?

a)

The denser plate fractures.

b)

The less dense plate subducts.

c)

The denser plate subducts.

d)

The less dense plate fractures.

43.

What type of mountain forms where blocks of rock drop downward along a series of faults?

a)

salt-block mountains

b)

folded mountains

c)

flawed-block mountains

d)

fault -block mountains

44.

The sloping sides of a fold are called

a)

limbs

b)

hinges

c)

axial planes

d)

synclines

45.

This is a mountain with circular rock layers that gently slope from the center.

a)

Volcanic mountain

b)

Folded mountain

c)

Dome mountain

d)

fault-block mountain

46.

This is a mountain that forms where rock layers are squeezed and uplifted?

a)

folded mountain

b)

volcanic mountain

c)

dome mountain

d)

fault-blocked mountain

47.

A Thrust Fault is a low angle _______________________

a)

normal fault

b)

reverse fault

c)

shear fault

d)

notMy fault

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