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Mountains and Volcanoes
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What is this?
Basalt
Magma
Lava
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What is this?
Basalt
Magma
Lava
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What is the tallest mountain in the United States?
Mt. Ranier
Mons Olympus
Mt. Everest
Mauna Kea
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What is the tallest mountain on Earth?
Mt. Ranier
Mt. Everest
Mons Olympus
Mauna Kea
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Which boundaries make folded mountains?
Divergent = Continent-Continent or Ocean-Continent
Convergent = Continent-Continent or Ocean-Continent
Divergent = Ocean-Continent or Ocean-Ocean
Convergent = Ocean-Continent or Ocean-Ocean
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Which volcanoes tend to erupt violently?
High Silica
Shield
Low Silica
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What are mountains that form as blocks of rock move up or down normal faults
Shield Mountains
Composite Mountains
Folded Mountains
Fault Block Mountains
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tall, cone shaped volcanoes built of layers of high silica lava and layers of rock - violent!
Fault Block Volcano
Cinder Cone Volcano
Composite Volcano
Shield Volcano
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Broad, flat volcano that oozes low silica lava and is built up of many layers.
Fault Block Volcano
Cinder Cone Volcano
Shield Volcano
Composite Volcano
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These are long lines of mountains that usually form at the same time and by the same processes.
Mountains
Convergent Boundaries
Mountain Ranges
Transform Boundaries
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Which volcano would be the safest to live near?
Cinder Cone
Shield
Composite
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What is pyroclastic flow?
Soot/Ash that are thrown up out of a Cinder Cone Volcano
Lava erupted from a Shield Volcano that flows/oozes easily
Volcanic gases/rock in a superhot cloud race down a mountain
Super heated magma trapped below a Composite Volcano Caldera
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What causes some volcanoes to violently and unexpectedly erupt?
Hot lava
Escaping gases
Hot magma
Trapped gases
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An area of land that rises steeply from the land around it.
Island
Volcano
Hill
Mountain
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A huge crater formed by the collapse of a volcano when magma rapidly erupts from underneath it.
Magma Chamber
Caldera
Pyroclastic Flow
Cinder
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Where are most mountain ranges found?
Inside plate boundaries
Under the oceans
On the edges of plate boundaries
On land
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What is REALLY the tallest mountain in the United States but is also and ISLAND?
Mons Olympus
Mauna Kea
Mt. Everest
Mt. Ranier
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What is the tallest mountain in the Solar System?
Mt. Ranier
Mt. Everest
Mons Olympus
Mauna Kea
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An opening in the Earth’s crust that allows molten rock, rock fragments, and gases to escape.
Mountain
Hill
Island
Volcano
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How does Silica affect lava?
Makes the lava THIN - gases are trapped and pressure builds
Makes the lava THICK - gases are trapped and pressure builds
Makes the lava THICK - gases are released and pressure drops
Makes the lava THIN - gases are released and pressure drops
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What are mountains that form as continental crust crumples and bends into folds
Shield Mountains
Composite Mountains
Folded Mountains
Fault Block Mountains
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Steep sided hills formed by the eruption of ash and rock that pile up around a single crater.
Cinder Cone Volcano
Fault Block Volcano
Shield Volcano
Composite Volcano
