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Vocabulary
Mountains
How Magma Moves
Bonus
100
This is the solid, rocky, upper layer of Earth.
What is the Lithosphere?
100
This Mountain is formed when magma erupts from an opening in the earth's surface.
What are Volcanoes?
100
This process by which energy is transferred by a moving fluid.
What is Convection?
100
What are the our main problems at high altitudes?
What is Breathing, vision, blood thickens, heartbeat accelerates?
200
This is the non-rigid layer of earth that behaves like plastic.
What is the Asthenosphere?
200
This Mountain is formed when magma pushes up and hardens under the crust.
What is a Dome Mountain?
200
This is the path the energy is transferred on.
What is Convection Current?
200
Why don't the Sherpas have those problems?
What is their blood contains more oxygen and receives more with each breath?
300
This is where plates come together.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
300
This type of Mountain forms when rock moves up and down along a fault.
What is a Fault Block Mountain?
300
The partly melted hot rock does what because it is less dense than the surrounding materials.
What is Rises?
400
This is where plates move apart.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
400
This Mountain forms when masses of rock are squeezed from opposite sides.
What is a Folded Mountain?
400
As the melted rock gets to the edge of a plate it does what? (3 things)
What is Hardens, Cools, Sinks?
500
This is where plates slide past one another.
What is a Transform Fault Boundary?
500
The three types of Mountains that are similar.
What is Folded, Fault-Block, and Volcanoes.
500
The process of Convection supports what theory?
What is The Theory of Plate Tectonics?