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Earth Science 101 Practice Test: Mountain Building
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1. The Sierra Nevada, California, and Teton, Wyoming, ranges are examples of ________.
2. In a normal fault ________.
3. Which one of the following is an example of an isostatic movement?
4. The ________ in California is the boundary between the North American and Pacific plates.
5. A graben is characterized by ________.
6. The ________ is (are) characterized by terrane accretion that has been active throughout most of Mesozoic and Cenozoic time.
7. A transform fault is ________.
8. The term ________ refers specifically to geologic mountain building.
9. A(n) ________ is a thick accumulation of sediments and small, tectonic blocks formed of material scraped off a descending, lithospheric plate.
10. The concept that rocks of the crust and upper mantle are floating in gravitational balance is known as ________.
11. A good example of a present-day, passive continental margin is the ________.
12. Tensional forces normally cause which one of the following?
13. In thrust faulting, ________.
14. A(n) ________ is a thick accumulation of sediments and small, tectonic blocks formed of material scraped off a descending, lithospheric plate.
15. A ________ fault has little or no vertical movements of the two blocks.
16. The mountains and valleys of the Basin and Range Province of the western United States formed in response to ________.
17. A syncline is ________.
18. In a ________ fault, the hanging wall block moves up with respect to the footwall block.
19. Which of the following combinations should favor folding rather than faulting?
20. Folded limestones that occur high in the Himalayas were originally deposited as sediments in a ________.
21. The Black Hills of South Dakota are a good example of a(n) ________.
22. The ________ area geologically old mountain range folded and deformed during the Paleozoic.
23. Large circular downwarped structures are called ________.
24. A thrust fault is best described as ________.
25. Which one of the following stress situations results in folding of flat-lying, sedimentary strata?

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