The following are key concepts that you should be familiar with after reading and studying Chapter 17: Mountain Building. To evaluate your understanding of any of the key concepts, select the corresponding Concept Quiz from the Selection Bar and answer the questions provided.
- Deformation: Force, and factors affecting how rocks deform.
- Folds – bends in rocks.
- Faults – movement of rocks past each other.
- "Orogenesis" -- the process of building mountains.
- Subduction and mountain-building.
- Collisions of continental crust: Compressional mountain-building processes.
- Non-compressional mountain-building processes.
