Mountains And Movement

Question 1

Actual Height

Answer 1

Difference between the elevations of the summit and the base

Question 2

Active Volcano

Answer 2

One that has erupted at least once in the past 50 years 

Question 3

Aftershock

Answer 3

Smaller earthquakes occurring after a major earthquake

Question 4

Anticline

Answer 4

Upward folding of strata due to sideways pressure 

Question 5

Basin

Answer 5

Depression and the crust formed by downward pressure

Question 6

Caldera

Answer 6

Crater or bowl-shaped depression, at the mouth of a volcano

Question 7

Cinder cone

Answer 7

Formed mostly by ashes and cinders

Question 8

Composite volcano

Answer 8

Formed from alternating layers of lava and ash

Question 9

Continental flood basalts

Answer 9

Large areas of land, covered in deep layers of basaltic lava

Question 10

Depositional mountain

Answer 10

Mountains formed from debris

Question 11

Dome

Answer 11

Formation due to upward pressure

Question 12

Dormant volcano

Answer 12

One that has not erupted in the past 50 years, but could erupt again

Question 13

Earthquake

Answer 13

Rapid movement of the earths crust

Question 14

Elevation

Answer 14

Height of summit above sea level

Question 15

Epicenter

Answer 15

Location and surface of the earth above the focus

Question 16

Erosional mountain

Answer 16

Mountains that have been formed by erosion

Question 17

Extinct volcano

Answer 17

One that is not expected to erupt again

Question 18

Fault

Answer 18

Crack in the earths crust

Question 19

Focus

Answer 19

Location of the origin of an earthquake 

Question 20

Footwall

Answer 20

Lower side of a fault

Question 21

Fold mountain

Answer 21

Mountains formed by movement of tectonic plates towards each other

Question 22

Geothermal

Answer 22

Heat from inside the Earth

Question 23

Hanging wall

Answer 23

Rock above a fault

Question 24

Monocline

Answer 24

Folding a strata due to upward pressure on one side and downward pressure on the other

Question 25

Normal fault

Answer 25

Hang wall moves up with respect to the footwall

Question 26

Plate tectonics

Answer 26

Theory that the earths crust is composed of several moving plates

Question 27

Reverse fault

Answer 27

Hanging wall moves down with respect to the foot wall

Question 28

Rifting

Answer 28

Where two tectonic plates move away from each other

Question 29

Rodina

Answer 29

Original landmass

Question 30

Seismograph

Answer 30

Equipment used for detecting earthquakes

Question 31

Shield volcanoes

Answer 31

Formed from mostly lava

Question 32

Strike slip fault

Answer 32

Where two plates move horizontally against each other

Question 33

Subduction

Answer 33

When one tectonic plate slides under the edge of another

Question 34

Subduction zone

Answer 34

Area where one tectonic plate slides under the edge of another

Question 35

Syncline

Answer 35

Downward folding of strata due to sideways pressure

Question 36

Tsunami

Answer 36

Giant water waves triggered by earthquake