Molten rock found below the Earth's crust that can often make its way to the surface through crustal weaknesses.
What is MAGMA.
100
Moving plates buckle, bend, and fold rock layers upward to create this kind of mountain.
What are FOLD MOUNTAINS
100
This is a sudden shake of the Earth's crust.The vibrations may vary in magnitude.
What is an EARTHQUAKE
100
An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
What is a VALLEY
100
What are all 7 of Canada's landform regions?
Western Cordillera
Interior Plains
Canadian Shield
Great Lakes - St.Lawrence Lowlands
Appalachians
Arctic and Hudson Bay Lowlands
Innuitian Mountains
200
Also a famous Johnny Cash song, this is also the pattern of volcanoes along the border of the Pacific plate known as this.
What is the RING OF FIRE
200
This is a region formed when a fairly flat area in a mountain region has been uplifted by plate movement.
What is a PLATEAU
200
These can be caused by undersea earthquakes. A large wave if you will...
TSUNAMI
200
The base of an ancient mountain region where formally high mountain regions have been worn away leaving a rocky, rugged landform.
What is a SHIELD
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY.....
Is it possible that a hot thing such as a volcano can exist under water?
If no, why not?
If yes, what does this lead to the creation of of.
Yes they can....
ISLANDS
300
Coast Mountains, Interior Plateaus, Columbia Mountains, and the Rocky Mountains are all examples of this part of Canada's landforms.
What is the WESTERN CORDILLERA
300
This may in itself be a disaster due to the explosion of the volcano or the fall of rock but there are several effects that may happen after this that are also hazardous to human life.
What is an ERUPTION
300
One of the large divisions of the Earth's crust that floats or moves on the molten layer of the molten layer of the material below it.
What is a PLATE
400
In AD 79 this volcano completely destroyed the provincial Roman town of Pompeii.
*It's not in your textbook, who knows it?*
What is MOUNT VESUVIUS
400
These mountains are located on North America's East Coast. They are smooth looking...
What are the APPALACHAIN MOUNTAINS
400
A fairly flat area in the mountain regions that has been uplifted by plate movement.