Tongariro Volcanic Centre (intro to Geo)
The largest stratovolcano in the Tongariro Volcanic Centre which is at a height of 2,797 metres.
What is Mt Ruapehu?
This process occurs when a denser oceanic plate slides beneath another plate (either oceanic or continental), often creating volcanic arcs.
What is volcanic arcs?
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The overall process of wearing down and removing Earth's surface materials, which includes weathering, mass movement, and erosion and can be carried out by wind, water and ice.
What is denudation?
The element in which vegetation protects from erosion and climate extremes, but also relies heavily on for growth.
What is soil?
The four main townships that are located around the periphery of the TVC.
What is Waiouru, Ohakune, Waimarino/National Park, and Tūrangi.
The study of Earth's volcanic activity, involving the eruption of materials from the planet's inner layers, driven by heat and pressure from the Earth's core and mantle.
What is volcanic processes?
This major European river, which begins in Germany's Black Forest, flows through four capital cities before emptying into the Black Sea.
What is the Danube?
Cirques, glacial U-shaped valleys, knife-edge ridges, and moraines are formed by which external process?
What is ice denudation?
The interaction between vegetation and this element results in a decrease plant variety and height due to increased harshness of environments.
What is relief?
The name of the desert located on the Eastern side of the mountains.
What is Rangipo Desert?
The name of phenomena that is being formed in the Taupō volcanic zone due to rifting and thinning of the crust.
What is a graben?
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Who is Travis Kelce?
The vegetation type found above 1600m in the TVC
Steep slopes see less of this element due to denudation.
What is soil?
The two main commercial ski fields located on the southern and western slopes of Ruapehu Maunga?
What is Tūroa and Whakapapa ski fields.
The type of magma which is characteristic of the stratovolcanoes Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu in the TVC.
What is Andesite?
The famous "One Ring" from The Lord of the Rings trilogy was forged in the fires of this New Zealand mountain.
What is Mt Ngāuruhoe?
1 minute to draw an annotated sketch of alitudinal zonation in the TVC.
Re: Lesson 3
1 minute to draw your best annotated diagram of an interaction between climate and relief in the TVC.
See L4.
The state highway that located north-west of the TVC connecting Waimarino/National Park to Tūrangi. (runs in a NE/SW direction)
What is SH 47.
1 minute to draw an annotated diagram of the tectonic and volcanic processes in the TVC.
Re: Lesson 2.
Which prominant NZ scientist features on the 100 NZD note and also has an element on the Periodic Table named after him?
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This climatic phenomenon occurs when moist air is forced to rise over a mountain range, leading to cloud formation and precipitation on the windward side, and often a drier "rain shadow" on the leeward side.
What is orographic rainfall?
1 minute to draw an the annotated interaction diagram with examples.