Facts
Mountain Building
Plate tectonics
General
Wild Card
100
The highest mountain in the world?
What is Mount Everest?
100
When plates collide or buckle under pressure creating mountain ranges.
What is folding
100
The outer layer of the crust that are broken onto separate pieces
What is a plate
100
The highest mountain in Australia
What is Mount Koscisusko
100
The highest mountain in Japan and also a volcano
What is Mt Fuji
200
The process where mountains are formed by the crust moving up or down.
What is faulting
200
The layer of the Earth that the crust rests on
What is magma
200
The fraction of people living in mountains around the world
What is one tenth
200
Unique animal found in the mountains of Afghanistan
What is a snow leopard
300
Temperature decreases by this amount with altitude
2 degrees for every 300m
300
A mountain that is formed over time when magma is forced through cracks in the Earth's crust.
What is a volcano
300
The theory that explains the movement of the Earths crust.
What is continental drift
300
More than 50 million people visit mountains each year for this activity
What is tourism
300
A country famous for its mountains and chocolate
What is Switzerland
400
The mountain range in North America
What is the Rocky Mountains
400
The type of mountains formed when the crust is forced upwards
What is a block mountain
400
The large continental landmass that Australia was part of in the theory of continental drift
What is Gondwanaland
400
The deepest ocean trench
What is Marianna Trench
400
The height of Mount Kosciusko
What is 2228m
500
The tallest mountain on Mars
What is Olympus Mons
500
The name of a large valley in Africa formed by the crust slipping down fault lines.
What is the Great Rift Valley
500
What is the result of two plates moving against one another
What is an earthquake
500
A major problem of tourists in the Himalayas
What is rubbish
500
Cartoon movie about continental drift
What is Ice Age 4
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