Question

1. Where is the Cascade Range found? 2. What does the Cascade Range include?

3. What formed the Cascade mountains?
4. What is a plate boundary?
5. List the three ways plates interact.
6. What is subduction?
7. What is the Ring of Fire?
8. What do colliding plates form?

Answer 1

1. Cascade Range, segment of the Pacific mountain system of western North America. The Cascades extend northward for more than 700 miles (1,100 km) from Lassen Peak, in northern California, U.S., through Oregon and Washington to the Fraser River in southern British Columbia, Canada.

2.The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades.

3.The Cascade Volcanoes were formed by the subduction of the Juan de Fuca, Explorer and the Gorda Plate (remnants of the much larger Farallon Plate) under the North American Plate along the Cascadia subduction zone.

4.What are Plate Boundaries? Plate boundaries are the edges where two plates meet. Most geologic activities, including volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain building, take place at plate boundaries.

5.Contents

1 Divergent boundaries.

2 Convergent boundaries (subduction zone)

3 Orogenic belts.

4 Transform boundaries.

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6.Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced to sink due to high gravitational potential energy into the mantle. ... Subduction zones are sites that usually have a high rate of volcanism and earthquakes.

7.The Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

8.The impact of the colliding plates can cause the edges of one or both plates to buckle up into a mountain ranges or one of the plates may bend down into a deep seafloor trench. A chain of volcanoes often forms parallel to convergent plate boundaries and powerful earthquakes are common along these boundaries.

Answer 2

The Cascade Range is located in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and includes many volcanoes, formed by subduction at plate boundaries. Plates interact at divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries, and colliding plates can form mountain ranges. The Ring of Fire is an area where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common.

1. The Cascade Range is found in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, spanning from Northern California to Canada.
2. The Cascade Range includes thousands of volcanoes, including Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens.
3. The Cascade mountains formed as a result of subduction, which is the process of one tectonic plate diving beneath another plate.
4. A plate boundary is a region where two tectonic plates meet.
5. The three ways plates interact are divergent boundaries, where plates move apart; convergent boundaries, where plates collide; and transform boundaries, where plates slide past each other horizontally.
6. Subduction is the process in which one tectonic plate is forced beneath another plate as they collide at a convergent boundary.
7. The Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
8. Colliding plates can form mountain ranges, such as the Cascade Range.