Rowling was in a class by herself on the magazine's list of the year's top entertainers, which was separated by editors into five other categories that evoke school cliques: prodigies, class clowns, most popular, most buzzed-about and valedictorians.
THE ANDES. The Andes is the longest mountain range on land. It was formed along the western margin of South America, where two tectonic plates (rocky plates that make up the Earthâs crust) collided.
Orogeny/orogenesis. Cycle of processes that form all mountain ranges. pillow basalt. igneous rocks formed from magma that pushes through dikes and erupts onto the seafloor. uplifted mountain. mountains formed from when large regions of Earth have been slowly forced upward as a unit.