Mountain Building Notes:
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Geologists say a variety of forces formed the mountains and are still at work
today so essentially mountains are still _________________________________.
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Mt. Kilauea and all of the Hawaiian Islands were built by underwater
_______________________________.
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Mt Kilauea has been erupting for ________________________________.
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All around Mt Kilauea there are past lava flows that have cooled and harden
to rock which have increased the size of the volcano. No one knows how tall
this volcano will become. Presently it is about _________________________ above
sea level.
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Just as mountains grow they also ____________________ in size due to wind and
water that constantly ________________ their exposed surfaces.
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In Wyoming the Teton Mountains were created when the earth cracked or
______________________. During this time there were severe _______________________
which are often involved in the mountain making process.
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Erosion from ________________________ and _______________________________carved the
fault block mountains (Tetons) into scenic peaks.
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The Tetons are part of the group of mountains called The
_________________________.
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Not only do fault blocking and volcanoes build mountains but another force
called ____________________ also contributes to this process
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Folding occurs when _____________________ pressure on the earth’s crust push
pieces of the earth crust _________________________.
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With the earth’s crust most of folding occurs _______________________ where rock
gets heated and becomes more flexible.
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Mountains that maybe once were level can be found at almost every
_______________________.
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Down folded rock is called a ________________________. They make structural
valley not created by erosion or glaciers.
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Up folded rock is called ___________________ . These form ridges and crests.
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A process called _________________________ was responsible for the intense bout
of mountain building that we now call The Rockies.
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Geologists say the earth is broken into about 12 plates, which sit on the
plastic (moveable) layer of the earth called the _____________________.
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Some plates spread away from one another, other slide by each other, and
_____________________ head on.
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These collisions cause folding, faulting and uplifting. Collisions may also
cause faults that allow _____________________ to reach the crusts surface which
create a volcano
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Hawaii’s volcanoes lie over a _____________________________.
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The Sierras and Cascades are North America’s ______________________ mountain
ranges. North America’s western mountains are younger and have the
__________________ and most rugged peaks of this continent.
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The Appalachian Mountains are very _________________ and stopped growing
about the time the Rockies were forming. Erosion has been grinding these
mountains down.
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The Appalachian Mountains are facing the fate of every mountain to
____________________ and _____________________ to the sea.
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Most of the surface rock around the world today was formed from
___________________ sediment.
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At some point this rock will be thrust ___________________ and form new
mountains, which renews the cycle of mountain building
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Mountain building is a _________________________ process that takes
______________________.