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Practice Questions for Faults Folds Mtns Review Homework used in Geology 1200 Use these questions to test your knowledge of Folds, Faults and Mountains. A. Short answer: 1. Normal faults are commonly found near ____________ plate boundaries 2. A __________ fault is caused by directed compressional stress, and the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. 3. Strike-slip faults are caused by _________ stress. 4. Historically, the search for petroleum deposits focused on locating and drilling the crests of __________ structures. 5. Horsts and ________ are most commonly produced by tensional stress. 6. Strike-slip faults are characteristic of ___________ plate boundaries. 7. The Adirondacks of New York are __________ mountains. Such mountains are characterized by uplift with little deformation. 8. Deeply eroded cores of the Earth’s earliest mountains, forming flat interior regions of a continent, are called continental ___________ 9. Alaska’s Aleutian islands are an example of ___________ mountains. 10. Fold-and-thrust mountains are most likely to occur in _________ plate collisions. B. Match the Terms. 1. Appalachians _____ a. shallow reverse fault 2. Alaska’s Aleutian Islands ______ b. at divergent plate boundaries. 3. Eroded anticline ____ c. means mountain building 4. Hanging wall is up ____ d. fault-block mountains 5. Continental shields ____ e. tipped past vertical 6. Overturned rocks _____ f. fold-and-thrust mountains 7. Thrust fault _____ g. in reverse faults 8. Orogenesis ___ h. has oldest rocks in center 9. Basin and Range______ i. volcanic island arc 10. Normal faults _____ j. cores of earliest mountains C. True or False? Circle the correct answer. 1. The general term for the change in sha