Large area of flat topped rock high above sea level.
What is a plateau?
100
Name of the graben found in California.
What is the Imperial Valley?
100
Landform created when molten rock pushes up rock layers on the earth's surface and the layers are worn away in places, leaving separate, rounded, high peaks.
What is a dome mountain?
100
The most important factor determining how a volcano erupts.
What is the gas content of the magma?
100
Name the famous dome mountain found in South Dakota.
What are the Black Hills?
200
Name of the mountain range found on the border of India and Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
200
Fault block mountains found in Wyoming.
What are the Grand Tetons?
200
Mountain formed where faulting breaks the earth's crust into large blocks that are uplifted and tilted
What is a fault block mountain?
200
This mountain made history in May of 1980 when it violently erupted, significantly changing the immediate area.
What is Mount Saint Helens?
200
A group of adjacent mountains with the same general shape and structure.
What is a mountain range?
300
Most plateaus are formed when this happens to thick, horizontal layers of rock.
What is uplifting?
300
Three states covered by fault block mountains.
What are Nevada, Arizona, W. Utah, S. Oregon, N. New Mexico and SE California?
300
Landform created when tectonic movements bend and uplift rock layers.
What are folded mountains?
300
Name of these mountains formed over a hot spot in the middle of the Pacific Plate.
What are the Hawaiian Islands?
300
Large area of flat-topped rocks high above sea level.
What is a plateau?
400
The Colorado Plateau is found next to this mountain range.
What are the Rocky Mountains or Rockies?
400
This range runs from the California Central Valley into Nevada and includes Yosemite National Park.
What is the Sierra Nevada Range?
400
Landform formed when molten rock erupts onto the earth's surface.
What is a volcano or volcanic mountain?
400
The rim of the Pacific Plate is also known as this, due to the large number of volcanoes occurring there.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
Large group of mountain systems.
What is a mountain belt?
500
The largest, highest plateau found in the world today.
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
500
Long, narrow valley formed by faulting and downward slippage of a crustal block.
What is a graben?
500
Mountain belt that surrounds the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Circum-Pacific belt?
500
This famous Wyoming landmark formed when magma cooled in the neck of an ancient volcano as it was erupting for the last time.
What is Devil's Tower?
500
Mountain belt that runs through Asia, Northern Africa, and southern Europe.