Draw a picture of the tectonic plate movement we used to represent what made earthquakes.
(Something moving against each other in opposite directions)
This is the name of tectonic plate boundary responsible for mountain building.
What is convergent?
This meteorite or asteroid was the largest per square mile from our case study in explore 3... (The Barringer or Chixculub)
What is the Chixculub asteroid?
What could be earthquakes, volcanoes...
This is the name of the tectonic plate movement that causes the most earthquakes?
This is where volcanoes are most likely to be found.
What is along tectonic plate boundaries, or the Ring of Fire?
These are the two mountain ranges can be found in the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains and the Appalacian Mountains?
This describes how large the Barringer Meteorite's scale was.
What is local, or small?
These are the names of two small scale processes.
What are geochemcial/erosion, floods, some earthquakes...
This describes how quickly an earthquake happens.
What is fast?
This describes the age of the Rocky Mountain to the Appalacian Mountains.
This describes the speed of an asteroids or meteorite's impact.
What is fast?
What is erosion, tectonic plate movement, or mountain building.
These are 3 locations on Earth that earthquakes have happened in or nearby.
What is California, Mexico, Chile, Japan, Alaska, Washington, New Zealand, China, India, Tibet...
What is smoother, rounder, and/or shorter?
This process helps explain how caves are formed.
This describes the height of Mt. St. Helens AFTER it's eruption.
What is lower, by 1,200 ft.
This is what an earthquake is...
What is the sudden release of energy as two tectonic plates move and slip.
This describes WHEN a flood is most likely to occur.
This is the mountain range that the tallest mountain in the world (above sea level), Mount Everest, is a part of.
What is the Himilayas?
This is the name of the process that happens at an atomic (microscopic) level.
What is the dissolution of limestone?
These are the two tectonic plates responsible for the creation of the Himilayan Mountain Range.
What is the Indian Plate and the Eruasia Plate (where Tibet is located).