The name for magma once it has erupted from the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
100
A type of mountain formed by magma being pushed up through the Earth's crust.
What is a volcano.
100
A map that shows elevation through the use of contour lines.
What is a contour map?
200
It is a mountain range in South America.
What are The Andes?
200
A circle around the Pacific Ocean made up of active plate boundaries where many volcanoes lie and earthquakes happen.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
A type of low, wide volcano, such as Rangitoto in Auckland, New Zealand.
What is a shield volcano.
200
When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate by slipping under it.
What is subduction?
200
A volcanic chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean which was formed by volcanoes and is a US state.
What is Hawaii?
300
It is the mountain range near India where Mt Everest is found.
What are the Himalayas?
300
A place where two plates are pushing into one another.
What is a converging boundary?
300
Areas in the centre of tectonic plates where molten rock has been forced through the crust, causing a series of volcanoes.
What are hot spots?
300
Raised areas of the earth's surface formed by converging tectonic plates.
What are mountain ranges?
300
The hot centre of the Earth.
What is the core?
400
It is a mountain range in North America.
What are the Rockies?
400
A place where two plates are pulling away from each other.
What is a diverging boundary?
400
The inner part of the planet where molten rock, in the form of magma, comes from.
What is the mantle?
400
A string of volcanoes are formed due to subduction; the oceanic plate converges under the contiental plate weakening the earth's crust allowing magma to find a path to the earth's surface.
What is a volcanic arc?
400
A process that has worn down Uluru to its rounded, smooth-looking appearance.
What is weathering erosion?
500
The deep void that is created at a subduction zone where the oceanic plate is pulled down under the continetal plate.
What is a trench?
500
A gigantic section of the Earth's surface which is slowly moving away from or towards other sections.
What is a tectonic plate?
500
The modern Italian city located near Mt Versuvius.
What is Naples?
500
The outer layer of the eath's surface?
What is the crust?
500
The cartographic acronym which represents the 6 essential elements of a map.