Mountain Building

Review Questions

1. Where are most of the world's great mountain ranges? Be familiar with both the pattern and the names of several ranges.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

2. What are cratons?

   • Give an example.
   • What are typical rocks of the craton?
   • What was the crust like in the early history of the Earth (3-4 billion years ago)?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

3. What is an orogeny?

   • How old are the Appalachian Mountains?
   • What mountains in the U.S. are currently still being formed?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

4. Where are the youngest parts of a continent?

   • How is new material added to the continent?
   • What is an island arc?
   • What is accretion?
   • How does the location of a subduction zone change when a land mass is accreted to a continent?
   • What is a suspect terrane?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

5. What is the rock cycle?

   • How is it tied to mountain building?
   • How does each type of rock fit into the creation and eroding of mountains?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

6. How does erosion of mountains cause lithospheric uplift?

   • What physical process that we have previously studied is this related to?
   • What happens to the sediment shed by erosion of mountains?