Continents
Mountains
Plate Boundaries
Landforms
Bonus Round
100
What continent is this?
Africa
100
Which mountain range is the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America? The range is 6,999 km long, 200 to 700 km wide, and has an average height of about 4,000 m.
The Andes.
100
What trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean and is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench
100
What is an area on Earth over a mantle plume or an area under the rocky outer layer of Earth, called the crust, where magma is hotter than surrounding magma.
A hot spot
100
What is the process where weathered material is transported and deposited elsewhere?
Erosion
200
What continent is this?
South America
200
What mountain is located in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.
The Himalayas
200
What is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through California, forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal).
The San Andreas Fault
200
The movement of tectonic plates can change landscapes by creating two types of landforms. What are they?
Mountains and Trenches.
200
What are the two different types of tectonic plates?
Continental plates and Oceanic Plates.
300
What continent is this?
Antarctic continent
300
Which mountain range is a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America that stretches 3,000 mi in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in the southwestern United States.
The Rockies or The Rocky Mountains
300
There are three different types of plate boundaries. What are they?
Transform (moving horizontally)
Convergent (towards each other)
Divergent (away from each other)
300
What is a landform that rises prominently above its surroundings called?
A mountain.
300
What is shown in this image by the red line?
The Pacific Ring of Fire
400
What is this continent?
Europe continent
400
What is the highest peak on the earth?
Mount Everest.
400
What trench is shown in this image?
The Mariana Trench.
400
Convergent plate boundaries often lead to what kind of landform creation?
The formation of mountains
400
What is the movement of rock along a fracture n the Earth's crust called?
A faulting
500
What is this continent?
Asia continent
500
Locate on this map where Mount Everest is.
500
What is the name of the fault line located in California.
500
What is an area of high land on the coastline often with cliff faces called?
A headland
500
What is the result of sudden movement along faults within the Earth? The movement releases pressure in the form of seismic waves, which propagate through the Earth and cause the ground surface to shake.
An earthquake.