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8th Grade - Mountain building!
Dynamic Earth U4L3
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The movement of tectonic plates causes stress!
Stress = the amount of force per unit placed on an object When a rock is placed under stress it can deform. What is deformation? When rocks bend they form ______________. When rock break it forms ______________.
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What are two kinds of folds?
Do not write in this box
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Syncline or anticline? Mojave Desert, California
Saint-Godard-de-Lejeune, Canada Rocky Mts. Alberta, Canada New Jersey
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What are the three kinds of faults?
Just list them. We will describe them on the next few slides.
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Normal Faults
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Reverse fault
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Strike-slip faults
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Folded mountains Mt. Kidd: Canadian Rockies
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Volcanic mountains Mt. Fuji: Japan
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Fault-block mountains
Teton Range: Wyoming
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8th Grade - Volcanoes Dynamic Earth U4L4
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Opening in earth that erupts gases, ash, and/or lava.
Volcano Opening in earth that erupts gases, ash, and/or lava.
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- Volcanic Eruptions
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How do volcanoes form? Rocks in mantle melt to form _MAGMA__ which rises because it is less dense than surrounding rock. (Pressure can also help force magma upward.) Volcanoes form when magma flows out of surface opening called a ____volcano___; a depression around vent is called a __vent__.
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Parts of a Volcano
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What comes out of a volcano?
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types of Volcanoes Shield Volcano
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Cinder Cone Volcano
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Paricutin Paricutin
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Composite Volcano
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Mount Rainer Mt. Rainier
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- Volcanic Landforms
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Volcanic features: fissures and Lava plateaus
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Volcanic features: craters and calderas
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Where do volcanoes form? Divergent boundaries
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Volcano at Divergent Boundary
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Where do volcanoes form? Convergent boundaries
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Volcano at Convergent Boundary
Formation of Volcano
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Where do volcanoes form? Hot spots
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Why are the Hawaiian Islands in a line?
Will there be more?
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Location Map of Volcanoes
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