Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________
Earth Science Chapter 11 Section 2 Review
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Orogenesis is a ____.
a. theory that explains the formation of strike-slip faults
b. type of faulting
c. general term for the processes that produce mountains
d. type of anticline
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2. How are mountains classified?
a. by their age
b. by the dominant processes that formed them
c. by the type of faulting that occurred to form them
d. by the type of rocks that occur within them
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3. Which of the following lists includes the major types of mountains?
a. folded, fault-block, volcanic
b. folded, tensional, compressional
c. downwarped, compressional, fault-block
d. none of the above
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4. Which of the following would NOT be considered a major part of orogenesis?
a. sedimentation
c. thrust faulting
b. folding
d. igneous activity
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5. A graben is bound by ____.
a. normal faults
b. thrust faults
c.
d.
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strike-slip faults
reverse faults
ID: A
Name: ________________________
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6. In Figure 11-1, what structure is labeled A?
a. graben
b. horst
ID: A
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syncline
basin
7. In Figure 11-1, what is the structure labeled B?
a. graben
c.
b. horst
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anticline
dome
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8. An example of folded mountains can be seen in ____.
a. the Teton Range of Wyoming
c. the Sierra Nevada of California
b. the Alps in Europe
d. the Black Hills of South Dakota
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9. In a typical fault-block mountain, ____.
a. thrust faulting plays an important part in its formation
b. upwarping creates distinctive features known as domes
c. the major forces are compressional stresses
d. large blocks of crust are uplifted along normal faults
____ 10. The major forces that form folded mountains are ____.
a. shear stresses
c. compressional stresses
b. tensional stresses
d. volcanic in nature
____ 11. The youngest rocks are found near the center of ____.
a. an upwarping known as a dome
c. uplifted structures called horsts
b. a downwarping known as a basin
d. fold-and-thrust mountain belts
____ 12. If erosion stripped off the top of a dome, what would be found?
a. The oldest rocks are exposed in the center.
b. The youngest rocks are exposed in the center.
c. The oldest rocks are exposed along the edges of the dome.
d. The rocks in the center are the same age as those along the edges.
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Name: ________________________
ID: A
____ 13. The Black Hills of South Dakota were formed by what type of orogenesis?
a. folding
c. volcanism
b. fault-block formation
d. upwarping
____ 14. How was the structure formed in diagram A of Figure 11-2?
a. by upwarping of basement rocks
c. by extensional stresses
b. by shear stresses
d. by volcanic activity
Completion
Complete each statement.
15. ____________________ is the collection of processes that result in the formation of mountains.
16. Fault-block mountains are associated mainly with ____________________ stresses, and folded mountains are
associated mainly with ____________________ stresses.
17. In structures called domes, the oldest rocks are found in the ____________________.
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Name: ________________________
ID: A
Short Answer
18. How are mountains classified?
19. What type of mountains are shown in Figure 11-1?
20. Describe the structure called a dome, and give an example.
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ID: A
Earth Science Chapter 11 Section 2 Review
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15. ANS: Orogenesis
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16. ANS: tensional, compressional
OBJ: 11.5
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by the dominant process that formed them
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A dome is a circular or elongated uplifted structure with the older rocks in the center; an example is the Black
Hills of South Dakota.
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