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Mountain Landforms
Fault lines
Volcanoes
Landforms and landscapes and how they are formed
Pot luck
100
I am the longest mountain range in Australia.
What is the Great Dividing Range.
100
Zones where earthquakes regularly occur.
What are plate boundaries?
100
The name for magma once it has erupted from the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
100

A type of mountain formed by magma being pushed up through the Earth's crust.

What is a volcano.
100
A map that shows elevation through the use of contour lines.
What is a contour map?
200
It is a mountain range in South America.
What are The Andes?
200
A circle around the Pacific Ocean made up of active plate boundaries where many volcanoes lie and earthquakes happen.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
A type of low, wide volcano, such as Rangitoto in Auckland, New Zealand.
What is a shield volcano.
200

This type of landscape is created by water eroding bedrock layers underground

What is a Karst Landscape

200
A volcanic chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean which was formed by volcanoes and is a US state.
What is Hawaii?
300
It is the mountain range near India where Mt Everest is found.
What are the Himalayas?
300
A place where two plates are pushing into one another.
What is a converging boundary?
300
Areas in the centre of tectonic plates where molten rock has been forced through the crust, causing a series of volcanoes.
What are hot spots?
300

Raised areas of the earth's surface formed by converging tectonic plates.

What are mountain ranges?

300
The hot centre of the Earth.
What is the core?
400
It is a mountain range in North America.
What are the Rockies?
400
A place where two plates are pulling away from each other.
What is a diverging boundary?
400
The inner part of the planet where molten rock, in the form of magma, comes from.
What is the mantle?
400
An area of land which receives less than 25mm of rain each year.
What is a desert?
400

A process that has worn down Uluru to its rounded, smooth-looking appearance.

What is weathering erosion?

500
The mountain range that is shared between Italy, France, Switzerland and Austria.
What are The Alps?
500
A gigantic section of the Earth's surface which is slowly moving away from or towards other sections.
What is a tectonic plate?
500
The ancient Roman city that was buried by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD79.
What is Pompeii?
500
A large inselberg in central Australia.
What is Uluru?
500
The tallest mountain in Australia.
What is Mt Kosciuszko.