Landscapes/Landforms
This is the landform with the highest elevation.
What is a mountain?
The name of the tectonic plate on which Australia is found.
What is the Australian plate.
The lines on a contour map outline this feature of the landscape.
What is elevation.
The Glasshouse Mountains were formed this long ago.
What is between 30 to 22 million years ago?
This is the southern most tectonic plate.
What is the Antarctic plate?
This landscape gets the least amount of rain.
What is an arid landscape?
This is the name of a plate boundary where the plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
Another name contour maps are known by.
What is a topographic map?
The hotspot responsible for the formation of the Glasshouse mountains is found here.
This rocky landform is distinguished by an elevated top and steep sides.
What is a butte?
This is a body of water surrounded on all sides by land.
What is a lake?
This is the tectonic plate which crashed into the Eurasian plate resulting in the formation of the Himalaya mountain range.
What is the Indian plate?
True or false:
Contour maps always increase or decrease in consistent measurements.
True
This is formed when the lava in a volcano neck solidifies and surrounding sediment is eroded away.
What is a volcanic or intrusive plug?
An area under the lithosphere where the magma beneath is hotter than surrounding areas and is responsible for the formation of many of earth's volcanoes.
What is a hot spot?
This landscape is usually covered with a diverse range of mature trees and makes up roughly 30% of the earth's land surface.
What is a forest?
What geomorphological hazard can occur from the motion in transform plate boundaries?
What are earthquakes?
This is what is shown by contour lines being close together.
What is a steep slope?
The fertile plains of Maleney and surrounds were formed by this type of lava flow.
What is basalt lava?
Names of three of the continental plates bordered by the ring of fire.
What are the South American, North American, Eurasian and Australian plates
This is the low-lying area of land, usually containing a river, found between mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
These are the hazards that result from a convergent plate boundary.
What are earthquakes and/or tsunamis and/or volcanoes?
This is the term used to identify the highest point in the area of a contour map.
What is the spot height?
This is the number of mountains in the Glasshouse Mountains.
What is nine?
This mountain range has been formed by the convergence of the Nazca and South American plates.
What are the Andes Mountains?