Mountain Landscapes

altitude

• relating to the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a society

• height above sea level

• a group that has different national or cultural traditions from the main population

• the point where the sudden movement of an earthquake begins

a collection or group of mountains or hills

• Mountain range

• ridge

• tree line

• face

convection current

• the name given to all the landmass of the Earth before it split into Laurasia and Gondwana

• waves of energy that travel through the Earth as a result of an earthquake, explosion or volcanic eruption

• a volcanic soil composed mostly of basalt, which has developed a crumbly mixture

• a current created when a fluid is heated, making it less dense, and causing it to rise through surrounding fluid and to sink if it is cooled; a steady source of heat can start a continuous current flow

the highest point of a hill or mountain

• tree line

• ridge

• plateau

• Summit

a tectonic boundary where two plates are moving towards each other

• converging plates

• divergent plates

• geothermal energy

• hotspot

relating to the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a society

• Pangaea

• the point where the sudden movement of an earthquake begins

• cultural

• hotspot

a flat part of land high up the mountain

• face

• slope

• plateau

• base

Label each part of the earth

Answer explanation

divergent plates

• a current created when a fluid is heated, making it less dense, and causing it to rise through surrounding fluid and to sink if it is cooled; a steady source of heat can start a continuous current flow

• a tectonic boundary where two plates are moving towards each other

• a tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new continental crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth’s surface between the two

• an area on the Earth’s surface that has a fracture, along which the rocks have been displaced

the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

• focus

• fault

• epicentre

• altitude