Mountains
What is the bottom of the mountain?
Would a very tall mountain have a larger or shorter distance for rocks to fall than a shorter mountain?
What is larger?
This area is where volcanoes are most commonly found.
What is The Ring of Fire?
Landslides are more or less likely to occur on steep ground?
What is more likely?
Rocks at the _________ of the mountain have more jagged edges.
What is the top of the mountain?
Rocks halfway down a mountain would look the same or different as rocks at the bottom of a mountain?
The Ring of Fire is surrounding this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Angles measuring this number of degrees or smaller are indicative of a landslide.
What is 35 degrees?
This type of wedging uses water to split apart rocks.
What is ice wedging?
This type of wedging involves plants pushing apart rocks.
What is root wedging?
What are earthquakes?
For a landslide to occur, you need these two conditions.
What is loose ground and lots of water?
The rocks at the bottom of a mountain are larger or smaller than the rocks at the top?
What is smaller?
Are there more trees at the bottom or the top of a mountain?
This type of volcano can still produce basalt in unsuspecting locations.
What are dead volcanoes?
Out of these solutions, this one is the LEAST reasonable and affordable.
Solution #1 - Build a Giant Umbrella
Solution #2 - Carve Steps on the Hillside
Solution #3 - Pick Up Loose Rocks
What is the giant umbrella?
The rocks at the bottom of a very large mountain would be more or less eroded than those at the bottom of a smaller mountain?
What is more eroded?
What is ice wedging?
This type of volcano is more likely to erupt because the lava traps gas for a longer amount of time.
What are cone volcanoes?
True or False:
Landslides can be caused by both humans AND natural occurrences.
True