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Subduction zones can be roughly divided into the following 4 regions? - correct answer a. Backarc b. Forearc c. Trench d. Volcanic arc The Himalaya Mountains result from this type of mountain building. a. Alpine-Type b. Island-Arc Type c. Cordilleran-...

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Subduction zones can be roughly divided into the following 4 regions? - correct answer
a. Backarc

b. Forearc

c. Trench

d. Volcanic arc



The Himalaya Mountains result from this type of mountain building.



a. Alpine-Type

b. Island-Arc Type

c. Cordilleran- Type

d. Andean Type - correct answer a. Alpine-Type



California's Sierra Nevada, Coast Ranges, and Great Valley are examples of structures that are typically
generated from this type of mountain building?

a. Alpine-Type

b. Island-Arc Type

c. Cordilleran- Type

d. Andean Type - correct answer d. Andean Type



A relatively small crustal fragment (a microcontinent, a volcanic island arc, or an oceanic plateau) that
has been carried by an oceanic plate to a continental subduction zone and then accreted onto the
continental margin is called:

a. Orogeby

b. Terrane

c. Isostasy - correct answer b. Terrane

, A relatively rapid type of mass movement that involves a flow of soil and regolith containing a large
amount of water is:

a. Slump

b. Creep

c. Rockslide

d. Debris Flow - correct answer d. Debris Flow



Where summers are too short and cool to melt more than a shallow surface layer, the permanently
frozen ground is known as _________ - correct answer Permafrost



A debris flow composed mostly of volcanic materials on the flanks of volcanoes is called a ________ -
correct answer Lahar



The characteristic "apron" of angular rock debris that accumulates below a mountain cliff is called:

a. Soliflucion

b. Talus slope

c. Slump

d. Creeo - correct answer b. Talus slope



An episode of mountain building is called:

a. Orogeny

b. Xenolith

c. Isostasy

d. Solifluction - correct answer a. Orogeny



The name given to an event where blocks of bedrock break loose and slide down a slope:

a. Slump

b. Mudflow

c. Lahar

d. Rockslide - correct answer d. Rockslide

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