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Question 1

Taiwan has the highest mountain range of what region?

Answer 1

East Asia

Question 2

What is the lifecycle of mountains?

Answer 2

Birth

Growth

Aging

Decline

Question 3

How long does a lifecycle last?

Answer 3

100s of millions of years

Question 4

What forms mountains?

Answer 4

Plate movements

Question 5

What is the tallest mountain of Taiwan?

Answer 5

Yushan

Question 6

How tall is Yushan?

Answer 6

3953m

Question 7

What splits the two mountain ranges of Taiwan?

Answer 7

Huadong longitudinal valley

Question 8

What mountain range is west of the valley?

Answer 8

Central range

Question 9

What mountain range is east of the valley?

Answer 9

Coastal range

Question 10

Which mountain range is smaller?

Answer 10

Coastal range

Question 11

How are both mountain ranges aligned?

Answer 11

Parallel

Question 12

What is the interaction between the Philippine sea plate and the Eurasian plate?

Answer 12

Philippine sea plate is sub-ducted under Eurasian plate

Question 13

Where can we see the Philippine sea plate being sub-ducted under the Eurasian plate?

Answer 13

Ryuku Trench

Question 14

Where was Tualuanshan once part of?

Answer 14

Was once part of the Logan island arc

Question 15

How was Tualuanshan formed?

Answer 15

Formed of blocks of andesite of various blocks and sizes

Question 16

Why is Hsiukuluanshi river special?

Answer 16

The only stream that transversely cuts across the coastal range

Question 17

What does the mud formation show?

Answer 17

Angular ridges and a ragged and exposed surface

Question 18

What are the layers of the oceanic crust?

Answer 18

Mudstone

Extrusive rock

Kypabyssal rock

Plutonic rock

Peridotite

Question 19

How was the Lichi melange formed?

Answer 19

Due to island arc content collision due to plate convergence

Question 20

What is the main rock type in an island arc?

Answer 20

Andesite and it does not contain quartz

Question 21

What is the primary rock of continents?

Answer 21

Granites and contains a lot of quartz

Question 22

How to know when the sandstone stratum containing quartz was deposited?

Answer 22

Through microfossils called foraminiferas

Question 23

When did the collision between the Eurasian plate and the Philippine sea plate happen?

Answer 23

Around 6 million years ago

Question 24

When did mountain appear in Taiwan?

Answer 24

3 million years ago

Question 25

How high is the highest terrace and where?

Answer 25

200 m Central range

Question 26

By how much is the crust under the Taiwan mountain ranges being uplifted?

Answer 26

0.5 cm per year

Question 27

What happens to the mountain due to the uplift?

Answer 27

Mountains get higher and steeper Enhances effect of erosion

Question 28

What was slate found on the surface originally?

Answer 28

Slate and mud 10km under ground

Question 29

How is slate found on the surface?

Answer 29

The 10km of ground surface was eroded within 2 million years 0.5cm per years

Question 30

What is the uplift of the mountains equal to?

Answer 30

Erosion of the mountain

Question 31

What is the rock formation in the central valley the closer that it is to the Huadong longitudinal valley?

Answer 31

The closer the central range is to the Huadong longitudinal valley, the deeper the rock formation is buried. The greater the extent of metamorphism also

Question 32

What is west of the schist belt?

Answer 32

The slate belt which is the roof of Taiwan

Question 33

When was the Chichi earthquake?

Answer 33

1999

Question 34

Where was the Chichi earthquake?

Answer 34

Chelungpu fault

Question 35

How strong was the Chichi earthquake?

Answer 35

7.1 on the Richter scale

Question 36

How much was land uplifted during the Chichi earthquake?

Answer 36

2-10m uplifted Moved westward by 8m

Question 37

How much does Taiwan's rivers and streams transport of sediment load? Also compared to the worldwide average?

Answer 37

2% of the total sediment loads 100 times the average

Question 38

When were the plains of Taiwan submerged under seawater?

Answer 38

Around 6000 years ago

Question 39

How were the plains of Taiwan uplifted and how much?

Answer 39

Washed down material from the mountains 1m per 100 years

Question 40

How much rainfall per year does Taiwan have?

Answer 40

2500mm per years

Question 41

How much rainfall per year does central range have?

Answer 41

4000mm