1
What is the name of the mountain chain that runs along the western margin of South America?
Answer: Andes
Questions
2
The oldest rocks tend to be found __________.
Answer: in the interior of continents
3
What is the general term for periods of mountain-building that include folding, faulting, magmatism and metamorphism?
Answer: orogeny
4
Approximately how old are the oldest continental rocks?
Answer: 4 billion years old
5
Continental crust provides a record of about ________% of Earth's history.
Answer: 95
6
Oceanic crust provides a record of about ________% of Earth's history.
Answer: 5
7
Which of the following mountain chains was not the result of a continental collision during the assembly of the supercontinent Pangaea?
Answer: Himalayas
8
Which of the following mountains formed by general upward movement without major faulting?
Answer: Black Hills
9
Which of the following is an example of an epeirogenic sedimentary basin?
Answer: Michigan Basin
10
In which of the following regions would you expect to find the thickest sequence of sedimentary rocks?
Answer: on continental shelves
11
Gradual vertical movements of the crust without significant deformation are called ______.
Answer: epeirogeny
12
How thick are the sedimentary rocks in the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: 10,000 meters
13
Which of the following rivers runs along a rift valley?
Answer: the Connecticut River
14
Which of the following is an example of a fault-block mountain range?
Answer: the Tetons
16
The topography of the Basin and Range province in western North America is caused by ___________. ?
Answer: normal faulting
17
The North American Cordillera formed over a period of _________
Answer: 1 billion years
18
Which of the following did not form as a result of the collision between Asia and India?
Answer: the Ural Mountains
19
The Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado is an example of a ______.
Answer: upwarped mountain
20
Which of the following regions contains numerous fault-block mountain ranges?
Answer: Basin and Range
