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What type of mountains are the Ring of Fire?
volcanic mountains
What type of mountains are the Tetons?
fault-block mountains
What type of mountains are the Appalachians?
folded mountains
The kind of mountain that is formed when magma rises to the surface and erupts is called ____________.
volcanic mountain
What do scientists use to measure how quickly tectonic plates move?
global positioning system (GPS)
The type of mountain that occurs when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upward.
folded mountains
______________ provides evidence of sea-floor spreading.
magnetic reversals
The bending of rock layers due to stress in the Earth's crust is called _______.
folding
____________ is stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object.
tension
The hypothesis that continents can drift apart and have done so in the past is called ______________.
continental drift
____________ is the soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move.
asthenosphere
The type of tectonic boundary that forms from a collision between two tectonic plates is called _____________.
convergent boundary
The strong lower level of the mantle is called the ____________.
mesosphere
Do mid-ocean ridges occur at convergent or divergent boundaries?
divergent boundaries
A convergent boundary where old ocean crust gets pushed into the asthenosphere, where it is melted and recycled , is called ____________.
subduction zone
The San Andreas Fault is an example of this type of fault.
strike-slip fault
Rocks on either side of the fault boundary move past each other without much up or down movement.
strike-slip
Rocks above the fault surface are force downward in relation to rocks below the fault surface.
normal
Rocks above the fault surface are forced up and over rocks below the fault surface.
reverse fault
This kind of fault occurs at divergent boundaries.
normal fault
This kind of fault occurs at convergent boundaries.
reverse fault
This kind of fault occurs at transform boundaries.
strike-slip
Type of fault that occurs when shearing forces pushes rocks from different, but not opposite, directions.
strike-slip fault
Type of fault that occurs where compression pushes rocks in.
reverse
Type of fault that occurs where tension pulls rocks apart.
Normal
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