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Vocabulary
Famous places
Moving Plates
Mountains
Volcanoes
100
the path along which energy is transferred.
What is Convection current
100
The highest mountain peak in the world
What is Mt. Everest
100
Separating plates move away from one another at...
What is divergent boundaries
100
What 4 processes form mountains?
What is folding, faulting, doming, and volcanic
100
What is a volcano that is likely to erupt in the future?
What is Active volcano
200
A type of mountain forms when masses of rock move up or down along a fault.
What is fault-block mountains
200
What mountain range was formed when a plate carrying India rammed into a plate carrying Asia.
What is Himalayas
200
Colliding plates come together at...
What is convergent boundaries
200
The Grand Teton Mountains are an example of what type of mountain?
What is fault-block mountain
200
What is a volcano that is unlikely to erupt again.
What is Dormant Volcano
300
A type of mountain which forms when two tectonic plates collide.
What is folded mountains
300
A volcano in the Cascade Range.
What is Mt. St. Helens
300
Plates move past one another at......
What is transform-fault boundaries.
300
Pikes Peak is an example of a/an....
What is Dome Mountain
300
What is a volcano that may NEVER erupt again.
What is Extinct volcano
400
The layer of Earth below the lithosphere is called...
What is asthenosphere
400
This is the place where the most famous fault line exists and many earthquakes occur.
What is San Andreas Fault Line in California
400
The theory that plates are constantly moving is called..
What is The Theory of Plate Tectonics
400
Mt. St. Helens is an example of a/an
What is volcano
400
How many volcanoes are located in the ring of fire?
What is 75%
500
The solid, rocky layer of the Earth is...
What is the lithosphere
500
The Swiss Alps are an example of what type of mountain ...
What is Folded Mountains
500
Where is a transform-fault boundary located in the United States and what is its name?
What is California-San Andreas Fault
500
How is it that the Sherpas can live up high in the mountains?
What is Their blood has more oxygen-carrying red blood cells since they have lived their all their lives.
500
List the 3 types of volcanoes
What is Cinder, Cone, Composite