Weather and Mountains
Weather and Oceans
Mountains
Internal Forces
Internal Forces
100
When moist winds approach a mountain, they often drop rain as they rise over the mountain. The air coming down the other side of the mountain is....
100
In winter, a city that is far away from an ocean will generally be
What is colder than a city near a large body of water?
100
Which side of the mountain tends to be dry?
What is the leeward side?
100
Tectonic plates are
What are large pieces of rock?
100
When mountains are formed, the tectonic plates
What is collide?
200
The side of the mountain that is dry and hot is called
What is the leeward side?
200
Two climates that are at the same latitude may be different because of
What is bodies of water?
200
As air rises up one side of the mountain, it
What is cools?
200
Locations where Earth’s plates collide are
What are boundaries?
200
When an earthquake is formed the tectonic plates
What is slide past each other?
300
The wind of the leeward side is
What is hot?
300
The side of the mountain that is closest to the ocean is called the
What is windward side?
300
Tectonic plates move
What is very slowly?
300
When volcanoes are formed, the tectonic plates can do two different things. These two things are
What are 1.) go above or under each other or 2.) move apart from each other?
400
On the leeward side of the mountain, you will find a
What is desert?
400
The windward side of the mountain is cooler or hotter than the leeward side?
What is cooler?
400
Deserts often form on which side of a mountain?
What is the leeward side?
400
What happens where magma rises through the ocean floor?
What is the sea floor spreads apart? Remember: It spreads apart because there needs to be a space for the magma to go through.
400
The only layer of the earth that is liquid is called the
What is outer core?
500
What does the leeward side of the mountain look like?
What is brown with a few green places (cacti)?
500
The windward side of the mountain is moist and lush which causes this side of the mountain to have
What is greenery (forests, trees, grass, etc.)
500
Places with higher altitudes are generally
What is cooler than places at lower altitudes?
500
What causes a rapid change to occur in on Earth's surface?
What is an earthquake?
500
Earthquakes occur along where
What is along fault lines?
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