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6th Grade Unit 3.3 Mountains and Volcanoes

Horizontales
A type of hot spring that shoots hot water into the air.
A mountain that forms as continental crust crumples and bends into folds.
A phenomenon of plate tectonics that occurs at convergent boundaries. It is a variation on the fundamental process of subduction, whereby the subduction zone is destroyed, mountains produced, and two continents sutured together.
A steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or cinder that has been built around a volcanic vent.
When two plates come together. The impact of the colliding plates can cause the edges of one or both plates to buckle up into a mountain range or one of the plates may bend down into a deep seafloor trench.
Verticales
A type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a warrior's shield lying on the ground. It is formed by the eruption of highly fluid lava, which travels farther and forms thinner flows than the more viscous lava erupted from a stratovolcano.
The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
A dense cloud of superhot gases and rock fragments that races downhill.
Mountains that form as blocks of rock move up or down along normal faults in areas where the lithosphere is being pulled apart.
A cone-shaped volcano built up of layers of lava and layers of rock fragments. It is steep near the top and flattens out towords the bottom.
Magma that has reached the Earth's surface.