Plate Boundaries
Name the three plate boundaries
What is
1. Convergent
2. Divergent
3. Transform
The boundary of the Pacific Plate, where most of the worlds volcanos and earthquakes can be found is called the?
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire.
The most sacred site for Indigenous People in Australia.
What is Uluru?
What type of mountain is Mt. Everest
What is a 'fold mountain'?
The Hawaiian Islands were formed by continental movement over a?
What is a 'hotspot'?
What type of zone do you find below a convergent plate boundary
What is a 'subduction zone'.
The name given to the line between to tectonic plates.
What is a 'fault line'?
Mt. Coolum is what type of of rock?
What is igneous.
A type of mountain where magma is trapped between 2 layers of rock.
What is a dome mountain?
Why do people live near volcanos?
What is 'fertile soil'?
When transform plate boundaries move it typically creates what geographical process?
What is an earthquake?
The Indian Plate crashing into the Eurasian Plate has created what landform?
What is the Himalayas.
A laccolith is what type of mountain?
What is a dome.
A type of mountain where magma from beneath the Earth makes its way to the surface.
What is a volcano.
What is 'Geothermal energy' caused by?
What is active or dormant volcanoes still producing heat deep under the Earth’s surface.
As divergent plates move what is typically released?
What is magma.
When 2 plates move apart and magma rises to the surface, that area is known as what type of zone?
What is a construction zone.
The name of the chain of volcanos found in South East Queensland.
What is 'The Glasshouse Mountains'?
Starting with 'P' this mountain is not formed by internal activity. Instead, these mountains are formed by erosion.
What is Plateau Mountains.
What 4 patterns can we find volcanos?
What is linear, clustered, random and dispersed (scattered)
The movement of magma underneath a plate boundary is called?
What is a convection current.
The San Andreas Fault line is cause by Pacific Plate and what other plate?
What is the North American Plate.
The dreamtime story of the formation of Mt. Coolum was a love story between Coolum and what other figure?
What is Maroochy.
What is the tallest mountain in Australia?
Mount Kosciuszko
When looking at a trend of a landform they can move in what direction?
What is a positive, negative or no trend.