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name a volcano, fold mountain, plateau, shield, plain, and valley that you know.......

the location and an example

2006-11-08 09:32:12 · 4 answers · asked by kogmu 3 in Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology

4 answers

Volcano Etna, Italy http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_etna.html

Fold Mountain Rockies, Colorado, USA
http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/faculty/riordan/Mountains/MountainsoftheWorld.html

Plateau Monte Roraima, Venezuela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Roraima

Shield Belknap Shield Volcano, Oregon.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/ShieldVolcano/description_shield_volcano.html

Plain Canterbury Plains, New Zealand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain

Valley Fljótsdalur in East Iceland,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley

Hope thats worth an A grade!!! lol

2006-11-08 09:42:03 · answer #1 · answered by huggz 7 · 3 0

Volcano
Mt. St. Helens in Washington Active
Mt. Haleakala in Hawaii Inactive

Fold mountains
Himalaya Mountain Range in Asia
Andes Mountain Range in South America
Ouachita Mountains in North America

Plateau
tepuis of Guiana
Colorado Plateau North America

Shield (volcano)
Mauna Kea in Hawaii
Hell's Half Acre in Idaho
Many on Mars

Plain
Abyssal plain in the deep ocean
Great Plains of the United States
Kanto plain in Japan

Valley
California Central Valley United Stats
Great Rift Valley from Jordan to the Red Sea

These are places I have been and know, but don't you need to look these up and relate places that you know.

2006-11-08 18:09:36 · answer #2 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 1 0

Volcano - Mount St. Helens - Oregon
Fold Mountain - Sierra de Juarez - Chihuahua, MX
Plateau - Kaibab Plateau - Grand Canyon NP, Arizona
Valley - Snake River Valley - Idaho

2006-11-08 17:40:20 · answer #3 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 1 0

Volcano :

Avachinsky-Koryaksky, Kamchatka, Russia
Colima, Mexico
Mount Etna, Italy
Galeras, Colombia
Mauna Loa, Hawaiʻi, USA
Merapi, Indonesia
Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mount Rainier, Washington, USA
Sakurajima, Japan
Santamaria/Santiaguito, Guatemala
Santorini, Greece
Taal Volcano, Philippines
Teide, Canary Islands, Spain
Ulawun, Papua New Guinea
Mount Unzen, Japan
Vesuvius, Italy


Plateau :

he largest and highest plateau in the world is the Chang Tang of Tibet, called the "roof of the world", which is still being formed by the collisions of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates. Second in the list is the Andean Altiplano, 3600-4000 m in altitude, located within the Central Andes and including Lake Titicaca.

Shield :

the Canadian Shield forms the nucleus of North America - and the North American craton

the Amazonian Shield (sometimes referred to as the Brazilian Shield) on the eastern bulge portion of South America (the Guiana Shield lies to the north and the Platian Shield to the south);

the Baltic or Fennoscandian Shield located in eastern Norway, Finland and Sweden;

the African Shield (sometimes called the Ethiopian Shield);

the Australian Shield that occupies most of the western half of Australia,

the Arabian-Nubian Shield on the western edge of Arabia,

and the Antarctic Shield. In Asia, an area in China and North Korea is sometimes referred to as the China-Korean Shield.

Plain :

Australian Plains .
Canterbury Plains, New Zealand
Great Plains, USA
Indo-Gangetic plain
Kanto plain, Japan
Nullarbor Plain, Australia
Khuzestan Plain, Iran
Mazandaran Plain, Iran
Pannonian Plain, Central Europe
Salisbury Plain, England
Alexis Leigh Plain, USA

Valley :

California Central Valley (United States)
Copper Canyon
Danube Valley (Eastern Europe, Wachau, Iron Gate)
Death Valley (United States)
Grand Canyon (United States)
Great Rift Valley (from Jordan to the Red Sea and Lake Victoria)
Indus Valley (Pakistan)
Loire Valley with its famous castles (France)
Napa Valley (United States)
Upper Rhine Valley (an old graben system) (France)
Rhone Valley from the Matterhorn to Grenoble and Lyon (France)
Shenandoah Valley (United States)
Sonoma Valley, California, USA
Valley of the Kings (Egypt)
San Fernando Valley (United States)
Santa Clara Valley, perhaps better known as "Silicon Valley" (United States)

Fold Mountain:

Himalayas, Karakoram Range, and Pamirs in central Asia;
the Alps and Urals in Europe;
the Atlas Mountains in Africa;
the Andes in South America;
and the Cascade Range,
Sierra Nevada, Rocky Mountains,
and Appalachians as well as their associated ranges in North America.

2006-11-08 20:50:22 · answer #4 · answered by Geo06 5 · 1 0

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