Vocabulary
The measure of energy released by an earthquake, measured on a numerical scale.
What is magnitude?
This is when two plates have moved sideways past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
About 250 million years ago, this supercontinent was made up of all the major continents.
What is Pangea?
The two countries that border Mt. Everest.
What is China and Nepal?
This is the process of the breakdown of the environment, such as rocks.
What is weathering?
The relationship between an event or action and the reason it is occurring.
What is causation?
This is when two tectonic plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
This movement is the reason why Pangaea formed, broke up, and why continents still shift positions today.
What is tetonic plate movement?
This is the direction Mt. Everest is moving each year.
What is northeast?
This is the process that transports Earth material.
What is erosion?
Plate material made of denser basalt rock that is usually found under the ocean.
What is oceanic crust?
This is when two plates have moved sideways past each other.
What is the transform boundary?
What is continental drift?
Mt. Everest is part of this mountain range.
What are the Himalayas?
This type of rock is made up of pebbles, stones, and smaller particles pressed together by the action of waves or water. Sedimentary is an example.
What is conglomerate?
Plate material containing less dense granite, usually found underground on our continental land.
What is continental crust?
The Andes Mountains, Himalayas, and the Phillippine Islands are the result of this type of boundary interaction.
What is a convergent boundary?
These are 2 types of data that were used as evidence to determine where landmasses once existed.
What are: fossils, plants, types of rock, shapes of continents. (Any two)
These type of data were used to determine the precise changes in Mt. Everest's movement and elevation.
What are GPS data?
Igneous rocks are formed when this cools and hardens.
What is magma?
The rate at which land is worn away by natural forces such as wind and water.
What is erosion rate?
The San Andreas Fault is the result of this kind of plate interaction.
What is a transform boundary?
This was the German scientist who was the first person who conceptualized the idea of a supercontinent.
Who was Alfred Wegener?
This happened in 2015, which might have impacted the elevation of Mt. Everest.
What is an earthquake?
These are the preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in sediments, such as sand and mud, under ancient seas, lakes and rivers.
What are fossils?