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- 1. Multiple Choice
Melting ice and snow from mountains act as ____________ for many rivers and streams.
Sources
Endpoints
Obstacles
Outlets
- 2. Multiple Choice
In the movie, Tim mentions that mountains take up one-quarter of the Earth's land surface. What can you infer from this fact?
Mountains are found in every ecosystem
Mountains do not exist underwater
Mountains exist on every continent
Human life originally evolved in the mountains
- 3. Multiple Choice
The land east of the Sierra Nevada mountains is desert. What can you infer about the land west of the Sierras?
It is constantly buffeted by high winds
It is one of the rainiest regions on the planet
It's also desert
It receives a fair amount of precipitation
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following terms describes how mountains form?
gradually
rapidly
explosively
destructively
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following terms describes the area where the Himalaya Mountains formed?
Divergent boundary
Convergent boundary
Subductive boundary
Transform boundary
- 6. Multiple Choice
What feature might you find throughout the Rocky Mountains?
Tilted blocks of rock
Folded blocks of rock
Sharp peaks and ridges
Volcanoes
- 7. Multiple Choice
The surface of volcanic mountains is made up of:
compacted ash and smoke
sedimentary rock
metals from deep within the Earth's crust
cooled magma
- 8. Multiple Choice
How are fault-block mountains different from folded mountains?
Fault-block mountains form where tectonic plates push together; folded mountains occur where plates pull apart
Fault-block mountains occur where two plates slide past; folded mountains occur where one slides underneath
Fault-block mountains occur where plates pull apart; folded mountains occur where plates push together
Fault-block mountains occur where one plate slides underneath; folded mountains occur where they slide past
- 9. Multiple Choice
What can you conclude from the fact that the volcanic ocean ridge system is the largest mountain belt on earth?
There are more underwater volcanoes than aboveground volcanoes
There are more underwater tectonic plates than aboveground tectonic plates
Underwater mountains have higher elevations than aboveground mountains
Mountains form faster underwater than they do on land
- 10. Multiple Choice
The rock that makes up folded, upwarped, and fault-block mountains comes from:
The earth's mantle
The earth's crust
The earth's core
The earth's surface
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