Mountain Mania
Earthquakes and Shakes
Volcano Vocabulary
At a Turtle's Pace
All Mixed Up
100
This type of mountain is formed by convergent plates.
What is a folded mountain?
100
This is a crack in the Earth's crust or bedrock.
What is a fault?
100
This is molten rocks inside Earth.
What is magma?
100
This is the process of moving Earth materials by water, ice, or wind.
What is erosion?
100
This is the main force behind erosion.
What is gravity?
200
This is the tallest Mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
200
This is the spot on the surface of Earth that is directly above where the earthquake took place. This is where most of the damage takes place.
What is an epicenter?
200
This is molten rocks outside Earth's crust.
What is lava?
200
This is the settling of eroded materials in new locations.
What is deposition?
200
This is the ocean in which the largest tsunami took place in 2004.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
These are the second largest mountain range in in North America. They run through Pennsylvania.
What are the Appalacian Mountains?
300
This is the result of an earthquake under the ocean.
What is a tsunami?
300
This is the layer of Earth in which magma is formed.
What is the mantle?
300
This is the breaking down of Earth materials by wind, water, or chemicals.
What is weathering?
300
These are downward mountain folds.
What are synclines?
400
This type of mountain is formed when one plate goes on top of another plate.
What is a fault-block mountain?
400
This is the tool used to measure vibrations caused by an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
400
Most of the world's volcanoes are this type.
What are shield volcanoes?
400
This is a fan-shaped deposit at the mouth of a river or stream.
What is a delta?
400
This is when water overflows onto normally dry land.
What is flooding?
500
This is the most common type of mountain. The Appalachian Mountains are an example.
What is a folded mountain?
500
This rates the intensity of an earthquake on a scale from 1 to 10.
What is the Richter Scale?
500
Most of the world's earthquakes and volcanoes lie in this area of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
This is the rocks, sediment, and dirt carried in the water of a river or stream.
What is load?
500
This is a large fault that runs along the coast of California.
What is San Andreas Fault?
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