Chapter 12

Question 1

Endogenic processes

Answer 1

-Tectonic activity
-Driven by planets internal energy
-Builds crust

Question 1

Exogenic processes

Answer 1

-Weathering erosion
-Powered by Sun through motion of air, water, and ice
- Shapes crust

Question 2

Cratons

Answer 2

An old block of durable continental crust commonly found in the stable interior of continent nucleus
Includes: shields and platforms

Question 3

(Stress) Tension, Compression, Shear?

Answer 3

Stretching
Shortening
Twisting and tearing

Question 3

Strain

Answer 3

How rocks respond to stress

Question 4

Domes

Answer 4

Oldest rock in the center, younger rock outward.

Question 4

(Strain) Folding, faulting?

Answer 4

Bending
Breaking

Question 5

Anticline, Syncline, Monoclines

Answer 5

Hill, hole, wave

Question 6

Basins

Answer 6

Youngest rock in the center, older rock on the outside.

Question 7

Faults

Answer 7

Normal fault
Reserse fault
strike slip fault

Question 8

Orogenesis

Answer 8

Mountain Building (millions of years)

Question 9

(Earthquakes) Focus

Answer 9

Spot along fault where quake
originates

Question 10

(Earthquakes) Epicenter

Answer 10

Point on surface directly above
the focus.

Question 10

Effusive Eruptions

Answer 10

Pours out a more liquid type of lava more frequently (shield volcanoes and flood
basalts)

Question 11

Explosive Eruptions

Answer 11

Has a more viscous type of lava that leads fewer eruptions that are more violent(composite/stratovolcanoes, lava domes and calderas)