QT: Mountain and Volcano Earth Science

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Geography
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6th - 8th Grade
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Matt Stickle
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15 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the term for a glacier that surrounds a mountain peak or ridge?
Piedmont glacier
Nunatak
Tarn
Cirque
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the process by which mountains are created?
Rain shadow
Orogeny
Glacier
Tree line
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What effect is created when clouds are blocked by a mountain range, creating a desert on the leeward side of the mountains?
Glacier
Tree line
Rain shadow
Orogeny
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the altitude above which trees do not grow on a mountain?
Tree line
Glacier
Orogeny
Rain shadow
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of winds descend the slope of a mountain, creating the rain shadow effect?
Katabatic winds
Anabatic winds
Foehn winds
Leeward winds
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the term for volcanic craters usually formed by the collapse of the center of volcanoes during eruptions?
Caldera
Pyroclastic flow
Eruption
Lava
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the expulsion of lava, tephra, and gases from a volcano called?
Lava
Eruption
Caldera
Pyroclastic flow
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