Mountains and Volcanoes
Definitions
Tectonics
General Geography
Applied Geography
100
How high does a mountain have to be?
300 meters
100
A flat raised area of land that drops off steeply
Plateau
100
Plate boundaries that move away from each other are called...
Divergent boundaries
100
The largest river by volume, located in the heart of the world's largest rainforest
Amazon
100
Throughout the year we have look at Earth wind maps, that help us track what type of natural events?
Hurricanes/Typhoons/Cyclones
200
The most dangerous part of a volcanic eruption is not the lava, but this.
Pyroclastic Flow (Hot gas, rock, and ash flowing down the volcano)
200
A large continuous body of salt water
Ocean
200
What is plate number 10?
Indian Plate
200
Mt. Everest is part of the tallest mountain range on Earth. What is it called?
The Himalayas
200
The Richter scale (ex. 7.3) is used to measure the strength of this natural disaster
Earthquakes
300
The name given to lava before it erupts and is still below the surface
Magma
300
A flowing mass of ice and snow that descends from mountains
Glacier
300
Plate boundaries that slide past each other
Transform
300
This continent is considered the driest continent on Earth, due to the lack of rain or snow
Antarctica
300
What country is divided in half by the Eurasian and North American plate, allowing you to SCUBA dive between them?
Iceland
400
Fault Block and Volcanic are two types of mountains. What is the 3rd type of mountain?
Fold mountain
400
The small islands that form at the mouth of a river as it meets a sea or ocean and drops its sediment into the water
Delta
400
These types of natural events occur more often near plate boundaries (2)
Earthquakes and volcanoes
400
The most populated city in the world is located in this island nation located off the coast of China. What is the name of the city and country?
Tokyo, Japan
400
Despite it's dangers people still build settlements near these landforms due to the rich soil for farming
Volcanoes
500
The flattest type of volcano
Shield Volcano
500
A huge piece of the Earth's Crust that moves and fits together like a giant puzzle with other pieces
Tectonic Plate
500
Plate number 5
Cocos Plate
500
Vesuvius was a volcano that buried a city almost 2000 years ago, and you can visit the remains and see where people were buried today. What country is it in?
Italy
500
The Fujita Scale (e. F-2) is used to measure the strength of these weather events
Tornadoes