TCSS Earth Systems
Mountain Building
Short Answer
1. Describe the rocks that make up uplifted mountains. How are these rocks different from rocks associated with
plate-boundary orogeny?
2. How can oceanic sediments become part of continental mountains?
3. How do the mountains that form along an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary differ from those associated
with an oceanic-continental convergent boundary?
4. What happens when a continental plate converges with another continental plate?