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It’s All About the
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I Can Mine What?
Cool
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Dancing
Plates
It’s How Old?
Killer Kilimanjaro
Curator’s
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Carly Mays
Curator’s
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Mrs Poynter: 3rd Period
Project: Mt. Kilimanjaro
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Team Members: Hunter Winkler, Ty Bonner
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It’s How Old?
Room 1
Geographic
Location
Age
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Fossils
It’s All About the Rocks
Room 2
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Formation
Rock Types
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Rock Cycles
Dancing Plates
Room 3
Plate
Boundaries
Plate
Movement
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Interactions
I Can Mine What?
Room 4
Talking
Rocks
Minerals
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Unique?
Cool Stuff!
Room 5
Really Tall!
Hard to Climb!
3-D
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Random
Fun
Facts!
Geographic Location
Mt. Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania, Africa.
Tanzania is located on the East Coast of
Africa.
Tanzania is bordered by Uganda, Kenya,
Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Mozambique, Zambia, and Malawi.
http://whereiskilimanjaro.com/
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Age
Mt. Kilimanjaro is millions of years old. We
know this because the rocks and rock layers
tell us the age.
Mt. Kilimanjaro is approximately 600,000 to
1.2 millions years old.
This volcano is dormant and has not erupted
for thousands of years.
 The eon, era, and period of the volcano is:
-Eon: Phanerozoic
-Era: Cenozoic
-Period: Quaternary
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/Geologictime.h
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Mt. Kilimanjaro
http://www.worldtravellist.com/wpcontent/uploads/2011/07/mt-kilimanjaro.jpg
http://www.shoortravel.com/image/kilimanjaroburak.jpg
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Fossils
Since Mt. Kilimanjaro is a volcano, there are
no fossils that date back very far.
This is because when the volcano erupted
fossils in the area were be melted by the
flowing lava.
http://goeddelphotography.com/uploads/ph
otos/_large/15_Lava-Flow-Slow-RopyPahoehoe-6.jpg
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Mt. Kilimanjaro Formation
Mt. Kilimanjaro was formed by successive
lava flow from the Rift Valley zone.
Another contributor to the formation was the
breaking and tearing apart of Pangaea.
We know that it is formed this way because
when Pangaea broke apart, it formed the Rift
Valley zone.
This then allowed lava to flow into the Rift
http://www.radford.edu/jtso/GeologyofVirginia/Photos Valley, building up to form Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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http://climbing.about.com/od/mountainclim
bing/a/KilimanjaroFact.htm
Rock Types
If you went to visit Mt. Kilimanjaro, you would
find igneous rocks.
Igneous rocks are formed by extreme heat
and pressure, or lava.
The main type of igneous rock found on the
volcano is tephra, which is rhyolite in
composition.
Tephra is made up of volcanic fragments,
which is primarily dust, boulders, and ash.
http://www.zfhz.org/plus/view.php?aid=1432
http://clasfaculty.ucdenver.edu/callen/1202/
Battle/Build/VolcanicEx/LavaBomb.jpg
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Rocks
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http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/gww/kilimanjaro/summar
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Present Rock Cycles
 Weathering and Erosion are two rock cycles
that still affect the area today.
http://metro.co.uk/2009/11/02/mountkilimanjaro-snow-cap-will-melt-in-20-years529719/
 The high winds on the mountain cause
weathering to chip away bits and pieces.
 Then, erosion occurs when the ice on top of
the mountain melts into water and carries
away the rock pieces.
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Plate Boundaries
 Mt. Kilimanjaro’s plate boundary is a
divergent boundary.
 Divergent boundaries are boundaries that
pulls apart and move away from each other.
 This creates rift valleys.
 Kilimanjaro lies within the African Plate
boundary.
http://www.zetatalk.com/info/tinfo05r.htm
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Plate Movement
 Convection currents, stress, and fractures
from divergent boundaries contributed to
the formation of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
 I know this because it lies on a divergent
boundary which cause stress on the land.
http://geogteacher.wordpress.com/2012/09
/09/first-year-11-homework-of-the-yearconvection-currents/
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Plate Tectonics
www.pleasanton.k12.ca.us
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/
astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml
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Interactions Of Earth
 This volcano is affected by interactions of the layers of the earth,
because when the divergent boundaries continue to pull apart, magma is
slowly let into the core of the volcano.
 Eventually, there will be enough magma build-up that the volcano will
erupt.
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Talking Rocks
 By looking at the rocks, they can tell us
what kinds of events occur over time in the
Kilimanjaro area.
 They tell us things like:’
-Faulting
-Weathering
-Erosion
-Intrusion
-Uplift
www.mwestonchapman.com
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Minerals
 Minerals that could be found at the volcano
are:
-Ruby: Red, precious diamond
-Tanzanite: Purplish, blue gem
 When the volcano erupted, rocks were put
under extreme heat and pressure forming
these diamonds and gems.
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Diamonds and Gems
www.gemselect.com
www.stephenmorrisauthor.com
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Unique?
 Mt. Kilimanjaro is an enormous
stratovolcano.
 It has three volcano cones:
-Kibo (main volcano)
-Mawenzi
-Shira
safarisentanzania.com
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Really Tall
 Kibo is 5,895 meters tall!
 Mawenzi is 5,149 meters tall!
 Shira is 3,962 meters tall!
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Hard To Climb!
Tens of thousands of people have climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro.
A few people have died trying to climb the mountain, due to
weather, heart attacks, or even accidentally falling.
http://www.mtkilimanjarologue.com/planning/random/mtkilimanjaro-how-dangerous-is-it-really.html
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Random Fun Facts!
Beer is sold at some of the camps on the mountain. Now
you can get drunk before you continue your climb!! :D
Bernard Goosen was the fist person to scale the mountain
in a wheelchair. He climbed it twice, the first time taking 9
days (2003) and the second time taking 6 days (2007).
Douglas Adams ran up the mountain in a rhinoceros
costume!
http://www.algonquincollege.com/africa2009/Documents/25
%20fun%20facts.pdf
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3-D Model
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