Mountain Formation
Mountains formed by two plates colliding and buckling, folding like a carpet
What are fold mountains
What is snow
The force of nature responsible for the formation of sand dunes
What is Wind
According to the national geographic clip, ocean currents are like this popular amusement park ride
What is a Roller Coaster
A wall of water caused by an earthquake underground
What is a tsunami?
Volcanic mountains are formed by the movement of two of these things
What are tectonic plates
The regions of the world where most glaciers exist
What are the Polar Regions
An area at the mouth of a river where high quality soil is deposited
What is a Delta
An ocean current popularized by the children’s film “Finding Nemo”
What is the East Australia Current
The place where lava collects under a volcano
This mountain formation are caused by upward movement between two faults
What is Block Mountains
This percentile of the earths surface is covered by glaciers
What is 10 percent
A recent natural phenomena that caused a significant amount of erosion in maritime Canada
What is Hurricane Fiona
Ocean currents move water in these two directions
What are Horizontally and Vertically
The point on the earths surface where an earthquake’s tremors radiate out from
What is the Epicentre
The official name for the study of mountain formation
What is Montonology
The term used to describe large chunks of ice breaking away from the main glacier structure
What is Calving
The most frequent type of erosion
The vertical movement of nutrient-rich water from the ocean floor to the ocean surface
What is Upwelling
A volcano formed by several different types of volcanic eruptions
What is a composite volcano
This percentile of the earths surface is covered by mountain formations
What is 20 percent
The name for scientists who study glaciers
What is Glaciologist
A large boulder deposited by a glacier in an area that it doesn’t belong
What is an Erratic
He ocean current responsible for bringing warm water up the eastern coast of North America
What is the Gulf Stream
A device used by scientists to measure tectonic activity
What is a seismograph