Mountains

Mountains

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9 Qs

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Mountains

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3rd - 6th Grade

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9 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How are fold mountains made?

Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down

Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava.

Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust

Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How are Fault-block mountains made?

Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down

Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava

Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust.

Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How are Volcanic mountains made?

Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down.

Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava.

Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust.

Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How are Dome mountains made?

Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down.

Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava.

Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust.

Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How are Plateau mountains made

Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down.

Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava.

Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust.

Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The height above sea level.

Altitude

avalanche

crust

gorges

hypothermia

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A large amount of snow that quickly moves down a mountain or slope.

altitude

avalanche

hypothermia

magma

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Hot, liquid rock located deep below the earth’s surface.

hypothermia

summit

magma

tectonic plate

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Pieces of the earth’s crust connected together

gorges

lava

tectonic plate

altitude