Landforms & Events
Formed when two continental plates converge. High in elevation. Named Rocky, Himalayan, Atlas, Appalachian...
What is a mountain range?
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This famous fault line is located in southwestern California. It is responsible for 1906 San Fransisco earthquake.
What is the San Andres fault?
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What is sedimentary?
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What is the Upside Down?
Formed when a continental plate converges with an oceanic plate. Magma rises when ocean plate sinks. Found in the Cascades, Andes, Cordillera Neo-Volcánica...
What is a volcanic range?
On 24 August, Mt. Vesuvius erupted ash, mud and toxic gases, completely burying this nearby city in Italy.
What is Pompeii?
This boundary produces only earthquakes and is characterized by tectonic plates slipping past each other.
What is transform?
In sedimentary rock layers, what is the youngest layer?
What is the top layer?
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Formed when a continental plate and oceanic plate converge. They are deep and underwater. Aleutian, Java, Mariana...
What is a trench?
In 1883, this event in Indonesia had an explosive force of a 200-megatonne bomb, killing more than 36,000 people and cooling the entire Earth by an average of 0.6°C for months to come. Bonus 100 points for providing the proper name.
What is a volcanic eruption?
(Krakatoa volcano)
This forms when two ocean plates diverge. They are formed when magma flows between the crack(s). Found in the Mid-Atlanic.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
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Occurs when two ocean plates collide. A tsunami may occur afterwards. Could happen along the Aleutian Island chain, Japan, Phillippine islands...
What are earthquakes?
On March 11 2011, a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a powerful tsunami in this ocean with waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 meters.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This type of boundary creates a trench.
What is convergent?
(subduction)
What are intrusions?
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This landform is a long chain, hundreds to thousands of miles long and forms above a subduction zone. It forms in an ocean basin via ocean-ocean subduction. Ex. The Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska
What are island arc volcanoes?
On 26 December 2004, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, located in this country.
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Earthquakes that occur at ocean-ocean or ocean-continental convergent boundaries can result in the formation of this dangerous secondary phenomenon.
What is a tsunami?
What is limestone made of?
What is crushed seashells and remnants form other dead sea creatures?
(calcium carbonate).
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