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Concept 3 Quiz

Provide examples of the association between mountains and plate tectonics, including convergent boundaries.

This activity contains 12 questions.

Question 1.
Orogenesis refers to those processes that collectively produce

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Question 2.
It is assumed that many of the terranes found in the North American Cordillera were once crustal fragments scattered throughout the eastern ____________ ocean basin.

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Question 3.
Which one of the following mountain ranges has formed where continental crusts have converged?

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Question 4.
Aleutian-type subduction zones occur where two oceanic plates converge.

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Question 5.
Deformation and metamorphism of the continental margin related to subduction of an oceanic plate is largely responsible for the _______ mountains.

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Question 6.
Volcanic arcs are associated with

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Question 7.
Most mountain belts form in ____________ environments.

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Question 8.
Plate boundaries that result in mountains with continental volcanic arcs are often called

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Question 9.
Terranes may represent fragments of

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Question 10.
The Grand Tetons are an example of __________ mountains.
 
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Question 11.
The Basin and Range Province is probably related to mantle upwelling and doming of the crust.

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Question 12.
Chaotic accumulation of sedimentary and metamorphic, with occasional scraps of oceanic crust along the landward side of a trench, is called a/an

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