Mountains
Located between Nepal and China in a mountain range called the Himalayas.
What is Mount Everest?
The act of causing something
What is causation?
3 rock classifications
Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary
River Erosion Gizmo: ______ is known as small rock fragments such as sand or pebbles.
What are sediments?
The main cause of mountain growth and movement
What is movement of Earth’s tectonic plates?
A mountain range that covers 1,500 miles in the United States, from Northern Alabama to the Canadian border.
What is The Appalachian Mountains?
A connection between two or more things
What is correlation?
Two types of igneous rocks
What are extrusive and intrusive?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Rock Cycle Gizmo: _______ is molten (liquid) rock under Earth’s surface
What is magma?
this color region represents snow or ice
What is white?
Extend from the Arctic Circle to the grasslands of the northern border of Kazakhstan. This mountain range separates Europe and Asia. The mountain range is 1,550 miles long.
What is the Ural Mountains?
The gradual wearing away of land surface materials, especially rocks, sediments, and soils, by the action of water, wind, or a glacier.
What is Erosion?
True or False? Sandstone is a metamorphic rock.
What is false?
Sandstone is a sedimentary rock.
Rock Cycle Gizmo: This kind of rock is formed from sediments
What is sedimentary?
this color region represents where liquid water is found
What is blue?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Are located on the western coast of South America. They are the longest mountain range in the world at 4,500 miles long. This is the highest mountain range outside Asia where Mt. Everest is found.
What is The Andes Mountains?
The speed at which the Earth's surface is worn away by natural processes like wind, water, and ice.
What is an Erosion Rate?
True or False? Slate is a metamorphic rock.
What is true?
Building Pangaea Gizmo: Name the 3 types of evidence you could have used to revise your model of pangaea.
What are fossils, rocks, and glaciers?
this color region represents where land is found
What is green or brown?
This mountain range in New Zealand is about 300 miles long. English settlers gave it the name Southern Alps, but the local Maori people had already named it Kā Tiritiri o te Moana which translates to “the sea is divided”.
What is Mount Cook?
Explain the continental drift theory.
Answers may vary.
Example response: The continental drift theory states that Earth's continents were once joined together as a single supercontinent called Pangaea, and over time, they broke apart and drifted to their current positions, essentially "drifting" across the Earth's surface.
Is marble a igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary rock?
What is metamorphic?
Building Pangaea Gizmo: Name at least 3 landmasses that showed evidence of ancient glaciers.
What are South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Explain how volcanoes are formed.
Answers may vary.
Example response: Over many years, cooled solidified earth materials that are pushed through the openings in the crust build up and become cone-shaped volcanoes.