CHAPTER 12 Picture This. Your Turn

Picture This. YOUR TURN: Tectonic Landforms and Features

Picture This. YOUR TURN

Tectonic Landforms and Features

Select the appropriate term for each feature in the diagram below, using each term only once.

Question 12.81

1.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.82

2.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.83

3.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.84

4.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.85

5.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.86

6.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.87

7.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.88

8.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.89

9.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.90

10.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

Question 12.91

11.

--------Active continental marginCollisionContinental crustDeep-sea trenchMid-ocean ridgeNonvolcanic mountainsOceanic crustRiftingSubducting oceanic lithosphereTransform plate boundaryVolcanic island arc

CHAPTER 12 Further Reading

• Hughes, Patrick. “Alfred Wegener (1880–1930): On the Shoulders of Giants.” Earth Observatory, NASA, February 8, 2001. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Wegener/wegener.php.

• Kääb, Andreas, Etienne Berthier, Christopher Nuth, Julie Gardelle, and Yves Arnaud. “Contrasting Patterns of Early Twenty-First-Century Glacier Mass Change in the Himalayas.” Nature 488 (2012): 495–498.

• Redfern, Ron. Origins: The Evolution of Continents, Oceans and Life. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.