Ilyas Geography Project

- Composite Cone Volcano

A smooth-sloped volcanic peak with a summit crater made up of alternating
layers of ash and lava, formed from andesitic magma at subduction zones.

- Fold Mountain
A mountain formed by the rupturing and folding of the earths crust
being pushed up and folding over itself.

- Batholith
A massive, often bottomless intrusion of magma cools beneath the
earths surface to form igneous intrusive rock.

- Stalagmites
A wide pedestal of calcium carbonate, or calcite, deposited by water
falling to the floor of an underground cave or cavern in limestone rock.

- Limestone
A layered sedimentary rock that dissolves fully in water.

- Moraine
A deposit of glacial till transported and deposited by a glacier.

- Arete
A knife-edged ridge formed between the steep walls of two or more
adjacent glaciers.

- Crevase
A large crack in a glacier caused by shifting and twisting of glacier paths.

- Hanging Valleys
A U-shaped valley cut by a smaller tributary glacier that lies at a higher
elevation than the deeper U-shaped valley eroded by the main glacier.

- Youth Stage River

A young river fed by either a reservoir or a glacier. Fast flowing and
powerfull water erodes deep valleys.

- Cumulous
Cumulous clouds are vertical clouds, often white in colour, with a dark flat base.
Rissing air currents produce a cauliflower appearance at the top of cumulous clouds.

- Nimbostratus
Nibostratus clouds are layered and dark in appearance due to their high
moisture content. These clouds can steady, prolonged precipitation.

- Radiation Fog
Radiation fog forms during cloudless and windless nights . The
ground cools, it cools the air close to ground level. As air reaches due
point the water vapour begins to condense and creates fog.

- Temperate Rain Forrest

Tall coniferous trees grow over a mossy forrest floor. Ferns and shrubs
cover the forrest floor.

Abiotic
Non-living components of ecosystems, like rocks.

- Photosynthesis
The process by which sunlight converts carbon dioxide and water into
glucose (sugar) and oxygen.

- Evergreen
Coniferous trees that are green year round.

- Smog
Pollution in the air that discolour the air and causes obstructions in
vision.

- Contour Interval
Lines on a map that are used to notate the elevation of land and water.
Usually measured in intervals of meters or feet in tens.

- Map legends
A Section of a map that notates the symbols used on the map such as
man made structures, rivers, scale and rivers.