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Mountain Building Quiz
1) This mountain range is a continental volcanic arc.
a) The Cascades
b) Appalachians
c) Himalayas
d) The Alps
2) This type of boundary creates the world’s largest mountain range.
a) Divergent
b) Transform
c) Convergent
d) None of the above
3) Mountain ranges do not form at these plate boundaries.
a) Divergent
b) Transform
c) Convergent
d) None of the above. Mountain ranges form at all types of plate boundaries.
*4) The Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate converge to make this mountain range.
a) The Cascades
b) Appalachians
c) Himalayas
d) The Alps
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5) Mountain ranges do not form at these convergent plate boundaries.
a) Oceanic crust-oceanic crust
b) Oceanic crust-continental crust
c) Continental crust-continental crust
d) None of the above. Mountain ranges form at all types of convergent plate boundaries.
6) If you looked deep beneath the Himalaya Mountains you would find
a) Ancient oceanic crust
b) Ancient continental crust
c) A lava ocean
d) All of the above
7) The Andes Mountains are made by
a) Subduction of an oceanic plate beneath an oceanic plate.
b) Tensional faulting.
c) Compression of two continental plates.
d) Subduction of an oceanic plate beneath a continental plate.
8) In basin-and-range, blocks that are uplifted form ranges, also known grabens.
a) True
b) False
9) Horsts are
a) Down-dropped rock that form basins
b) Uplifted rock that form ranges.
c) One the right side of a strike-slip fault.
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d) On the left side of a strike-slip fault.
10) The mountain ranges lining the Pacific Ocean basin are due to
a) Tensional forces.
b) Shear forces.
c) Compressional forces.
d) None of these.
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