Mountains
Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Layers of the Earth
Miscellaneous
100
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
What is Mt. Everest
100
What is the red hot material that comes out volcanoes?
What is lava.
100
In which layer are the plates located?
What is the lithosphere
100
This is the outermost layer
What is the crust.
100
What is weathering?
The breaking up of rocks
200
At what type of boundary to mountains form?
What is convergent boundary.
200
At what two boundaries can volcanoes occur?
What is convergent or divergent boundaries
200
What is the name of the theory that explains the slow movement of the continents?
What is continental drift.
200
This is the layer that is composed of the upper mantle and the crust
What is the lithosphere
200
What is erosion?
What is the movement of rocks
300
What is a mountain range?
What is a series of mountains.
300
What is it called when the denser plate moves under the less dense plate?
What is subduction
300
What proof do scientist have of there once being a supercontinent called Pangea?
What is fossils of plants and animals, glaciers, land formations, rocks
300
This is the innermost layer.
What is the core
300
What is deposition?
What is the settling or depositing of rocks
400
What is formed between mountains by glaciers?
What is a U- shaped valley.
400
What is the active volcano located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States?
What is Mt. St. Helens
400
What type of boundary forms at a strike-slip fault?
What is transform
400
This is where convection happens
What is mantle
400
What is the name of the wetland found here in Florida?
What is the Everglades.
500
How do mountains loose their peak?
What is weathering and erosional forces like ice-wedging and abrasion.
500
How can scientist predict volcanoes?
What is through seismographs, testing acidic levels, and satellite monitoring of smoke from volcanoes.
500
What do transform boundaries produce?
What is earthquakes.
500
This is the layer that the lithosphere floats on top of
What is the asthenosphere
500
In which African desert can we find many sand dunes?
What is the Sahara.
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