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15.Which statement is true about the process of accretion? It results in embedded volcanic island arcs and microcontinents being
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14.Ocean-ocean convergence produces _____. parallel belts of uplifted and volcanic mountains mainly volcanic mountains mainly
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13.Which major type of rock is most likely to experience brittle deformation? igneous rock sedimentary rock metamorphic rock
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12.Which action is not considered part of orogenesis? sedimentation igneous activity thrust faulting folding
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11.An accumulation of different sedimentary and metamorphic rocks combined with scraps of ocean crust is called _____. an
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10.What are the major types of mountains? folded, tensional, compressional downwarped, compressional, fault-block folded,
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9.The youngest rocks are found near the center of _____. a downwarping, known as a basin fold-and-thrust mountain belts an
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8.Faults undergoing movement that is horizontal and parallel to the strike of the fault surface are called _____. normal faults
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7.Fault-block mountains form when large blocks of crust are _____ and tilted along normal faults. uplifted sunken folded
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6.What type of mountain ranges form at convergent plate boundaries? fault-block and uplifted mountains volcanic and fault-block
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5.Which is not a type of stress seen in rocks? tensional stress compressional stress transitional stress shear stress
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4.Which feature can be produced at an ocean-continental convergent boundary? volcanic island arc graben bounded by horsts
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3.A material that undergoes tensional stress tends to _____. become less dense become distorted shorten stretch
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2.Which condition causes rocks to exhibit ductile deformation? being near Earth’s surface high pressure and temperature low
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1.Because of isostasy, a mountain will ultimately _____. be eroded to near sea level reach and maintain a maximum height diverge
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15.Volcanoes most often occur at plate boundaries and _____. far from other volcanoes far from earthquake fault lines at lower
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14.Which type of volcanism formed the Andes in South America? convergence between two continental plates convergence between a
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13.What is the Ring of Fire? a chain of volcanoes that are entirely under water a chain of volcanoes circling the Pacific Basin
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12.What commonly horizontal intrusive igneous body is formed when magma is injected parallel to sedimentary rock layers? stock
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11.Which statement is not true of a batholith? It may be uplifted and then exposed by erosion. It may form the core of a
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10.Which structure or landform could be a batholith? a group of mountains, such as the coastal mountains of British Columbia a
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9.An igneous intrusive feature that forms from a lens-shaped mass of magma that arches the overlying strata upward is called a
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8.The volcanic landforms at divergent ocean plate boundaries are _____. continental volcanic arcs ocean trenches volcanic island
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7.Which list places the magma types in order of decreasing viscosity? andesitic, basaltic, rhyolitic basaltic, rhyolitic,
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6.In what two plate tectonic settings do most volcanoes occur? at divergent plate boundaries (ocean ridges or rifts) and at
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5.As the temperature of lava increases, _____. its viscosity increases its viscosity decreases it can flow a much shorter
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