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Movement of rock builds mountains

1.  Where do mountains usually form?

2.  What is the difference between a mountain belt and a mountain range?

3.  What is a sediment? What kind of rock does it form?

4.  What happens to old mountains over time?

5.  Name the two plates that are creating the Himalayas?

6.  What are the two types of mountain building methods?

7.  Complete the table:

Type of Mountain / Characteristic / Where they form / Examples (at least 2)

8.  Name the three processes in order for creating folded mountains?

9.  Describe a convergent boundary.

10.  Describe continental collision

11.  What type of fault is common for North American fault-block mountains.

12.  What causes fault-block mountains to form?

13.  Draw a picture of both types of mountains and draw arrows for the forces that are creating those mountains.

14.  A ______is an opening in Earth’s crust through which molten rock, rock fragments and hot gases erupt.

15.  ______is hot rock located inside the earth and ______is hot rock that is not the Earth’s surface.

16.  Name three reasons why rock fragments are thrown from a volcano.

17.  A ______is a dense cloud of super-hot gases and rock fragments that races downhill.

18.  Folded mountains formed as ______and ______crusts pushed together.

19.  Match the following definitions with their meanings.

  1. stretch _____ A volcano shaped life a dome
  2. normal faults _____ An example of an interior belt of mountains
  3. subduction _____ Molten rock below Earth’s surface
  4. range _____ Loose pieces of rock carried by water and wind
  5. belts _____ An opening in the Earth’s crust
  6. sediments _____ A completely steep, cone-shaped volcano
  7. plates _____ Where most mountains form
  8. Appalachians _____ Where many ranges are close together
  9. Himalayas _____ What a fault-block mountain does to its rock
  10. Sierra _____ An example of folded mountains
  11. lave _____ A volcano that is steep at the top and flattens at bottom
  12. volcano _____ An example of a shield volcano
  13. pyroclastic flow _____ Long lines of mountains formed at the same time
  14. shield _____ Volcanic gases and rock fragments that stay near the ground
  15. cinder _____ Fault-block mountains form at this type of fault
  16. composite _____ An example of a composite volcano
  17. calderas _____ Liquid rock that has reached Earth’s surface
  18. Pinatubo _____ Where dense oceanic crust is pushed under continental crust
  19. Mauna Loa _____ A huge crater formed when magma rapidly erupts
  20. magma _____ An example of fault-block mountains

20.  How do the three main types of volcanoes differ?