Geology scenic spots presentation

Question 1

Where are the western foothills?

Answer 1

North west

Question 2

Where are the coastal plains?

Answer 2

South west

Question 3

Where are the mountain ranges?

Answer 3

Middle east

Question 4

What do western foothills have?

Answer 4

Sandstones

Question 5

What do coastal plains have?

Answer 5

Gravel terraces

Question 6

What do mountain ranges have?

Answer 6

Metamorphic sediments

Question 7

What does the east coast have?

Answer 7

Volcanic

Question 8

How are pedestal rocks made?

Answer 8

By waves and wind eroding the most at the base

Question 9

When does magnetic reversal occur?

Answer 9

Every 100 000 years

Question 10

How are magnetic reversals known?

Answer 10

By volcanic lavas

Question 11

How can magnetic reversal be recorded?

Answer 11

Radioactive elements

Question 12

Who was one of the first to propose continental drift?

Answer 12

Alfred Lothar Wegener

Question 13

What are the two types of heating for hot springs?

Answer 13

Magma chamber close to surface

Rapid down cutting resulting in exposure of hotter inner regions of rock

Question 14

What are formaroles?

Answer 14

Hot springs where the superheated water coming up is so hot it leaves as gas

Question 15

What does the Hengchun Peninsula reflect?

Answer 15

Reflects the emergence of the Taiwan belt due to mountain building, collision and uplift