Chapter 8 – Study Guide & Worksheet
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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
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.
Examples (at least 2)
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.
a. stretch
_____ A volcano shaped life a dome
b. normal faults
_____ An example of an interior belt of mountains
c. subduction
_____ Molten rock below Earth’s surface
d. range
_____ Loose pieces of rock carried by water and wind
e. belts
_____ An opening in the Earth’s crust
f. sediments
_____ A completely steep, cone-shaped volcano
g. plates
_____ Where most mountains form
h. Appalachians
_____ Where many ranges are close together
i. Himalayas
_____ What a fault-block mountain does to its rock
j. Sierra
_____ An example of folded mountains
k. lave
_____ A volcano that is steep at the top and flattens at bottom
l. volcano
_____ An example of a shield volcano
m. pyroclastic flow
_____ Long lines of mountains formed at the same time
n. shield
_____ Volcanic gases and rock fragments that stay near the ground
o. cinder
_____ Fault-block mountains form at this type of fault
p. composite
_____ An example of a composite volcano
q. calderas
_____ Liquid rock that has reached Earth’s surface
r. Pinatubo
_____ Where dense oceanic crust is pushed under continental crust
s. Mauna Loa
_____ A huge crater formed when magma rapidly erupts
t. magma
_____ An example of fault-block mountains
20. How do the three main types of volcanoes differ?