Exam 21: Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics

The Alps are examples of which type of mountain?

What type of forces result in normal faulting?

A(n) __________ is manifested by the vibrating and sometimes violent movement of Earth's surface.

The three principal types of mountain building are fold, volcanic, and ______________.

The three types of plate boundaries are called convergent, divergent, and ______________ boundaries.

The radius of Earth is about __________ mi.

A modern geologic theory that considers Earth's lithosphere to be made up of moving plates is known as

Remanent magnetism refers to the magnetism of rocks that contain the mineral named ______________.

What type of faulting results from stresses parallel to the fault plane?

Earth's radius is about ______________ mi.

The Cascade Mountains in the northwestern United States are examples of ______________ mountains.

The lithosphere consists of

One plate slides horizontally past another plate at the type of plate boundary called ______________.

Earth's radius is about

In 1960, ______________ proposed the concept of seafloor spreading.

The Japanese word tsunami means "______________ wave."

The rock on the underside of an inclined fault plane is called the footwall, and the rock on the upper side is called the ______________.

The point of the initial energy release of an earthquake is called the

Earth's inner core is

Transverse seismic body waves are known by the letter ______________.