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Types of Stress on Rock (pg.238-241)
STRESS is defined as….
Type of Stress
Rock responds to stress by…
(Demo: glass rods, gum or
clay)
ON Earth’s Surface
Below the Earth’s Surface
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Describe the results of the three types of stress on rock.
** DRAW ARROWS TO INDICATE THE DIRECTION OF THE STRESS.
Type of Stress
At the surface
Fault
Deep below the surface
Folding:
COMPRESSION:
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Type of Plate Boundary:
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Fault
TENSION:
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Type of Plate Boundary:
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Stretching:
Mountains and Plate Boundaries: Where they Form (pg. 236)
Using the map of the ocean floor or the pages 710-711, observe the major mountain belts and their locations.
Determined how the motion of the plates from the mountains.
Name of
Mountain Belt
location
OBSERVE the type of
convergent boundary
(O-O, O-C, or C-C)
and the PLATES
EXPLAIN HOW the motion of the plates
forms the mountains at
Convergent Boundaries
TYPE of
mountain:
volcanic, folded
Andes
Mountains.
In South
America
Cascade
Mountains
in NW U.S.
Himalayan
Mountains
in Asia
Aleutian Island
Mountains
in Alaska
Research facts and
information
Appalachian
Mountains
in eastern U.S.
Rocky
Mountains
In western U.S.
Grand Teton
Mountains
In Wyoming
Sierra Nevada
Mts. In
California
Stone
Mountain,
Georgia
EXPLAIN HOW the motion of the plates
forms the mountains
TYPE of
mountain:
Volcanic, folded
faulted, domed
Types of Mountains that Form: (pg. 243)
Volcanic Mountains
Folded Mountains
Faulted Mountains:
Domed Mountains: