Question | Answer |
The layer of Earth below the lithosphere is called what? | asthenosphere |
What is the highest mountain peak in the world? | Mt. Everest |
When convection occurs, what is the path along which the energy is transferred called? | convection currents |
Plates collide, or come together where? | convergent boundaries |
The solid, rocky layer of Earth is called what? | lithosphere |
What is the process by which energy is transferred through a liquid called? | convection |
What mountain range was formed when a plate carrying India rammed into a plate carrying Asia? | Himalayas |
Plates that move away from one another are called what? | divergent boundaries |
What is the name of a volcano in the Cascade Mountain Range? | Mount St. Helens |
Plates move past one another at what? | Transform fault |
Which type of mountains form when masses of rock move up or down along a fault? | fault block |
The Appalachian Mountains are an example of which type of mountains? | folded mountains |
Which type of mountains form when two tectonic plates collide? | folded mountains |
Earth's plates move over its surface because of convection currents in the __________. | asthenosphere |
Mountains form as a result of 4 basic processes, what are they? | folding, faulting, doming, volcanic activity |
Pikes Peak is an example of what type of mountain? | dome |