Mountain Formation
The four types of mountains.
What is a dome, volcanic, fold and block mountain?
The magma that erupts from volcanoes comes from ____.
What is the Mantle?
The location of tectonic plates.
What is in the crust?
The definition of weathering.
What is the breakdown of rocks?
An earthquake occurs in the mountains, resulting in a landslide.
What is a Destructive Force?
Magma causing the Earth's surface to bulge, then subsiding, leaving a rounded foundation.
Ex: The Adirondacks.
What is a Dome Mountain?
Rock formed as magma cools.
What is Igneous Rock?
A result of tectonic plate movements within the Earth's crust.
What is an Earthquake?
The two types of weathering
What is physical and chemical weathering?
A plate moves over a hotspot, resulting in a new chain of volcanoes.
What is a Constructive Force?
Erupting magma cools and hardens, forming a cone shape.
Ex: Mount Fuji.
What is a Volcano/Volcanic Mountain?
Igneous rocks are weathered, eroded, and deposited. Over time, ______ rocks are formed through compaction/cementation.
What is Sedimentary?
A major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
What is the Ring of Fire/Circum-Pacific Belt?
Erosion definition
What is the physical removal of rock fragments from a landscape or ecosystem?
A volcano erupts, and the lava cools, forming new extrusive igneous rock.
What is a Constructive Force?
A structure/formation that occurs as a result of a convergent plate boundary/subduction.
Ex: Mt. Everest.
What is a Fold Mountain?
Sedimentary (and/or Igneous) rock exposed to extreme heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
As a tectonic plate moves over ______, volcanoes are rafted away and new ones form in their place.
What is a volcanic hotspot?
Four forces that cause erosion.
What is wind, water, ice, and gravity?
Water freezes around and in rock creating a glacier. The rock is moved along with the ice as the glacier travels.
What is a Destructive Force?
Pressure between faults causing slabs of rock to shift upward or stack.
Ex: Mount St. Helens.
What is a Block Mountain?
Metamorphic rocks underground melt to form ______.
What is Magma?
The theory that the Earth's continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other; a result of the shifting of plates over time.
Ex: The formation of Pangea.
What is Continental Drift?
Rocks and material are weathered down, transported and eroded, and as a result, sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass.
What is Deposition?
The ocean breaking down rock and sand, carrying it to another location.
What is both (Constructive AND Destructive)?