Landforms
A large area of flat, elevated land.
Plateau
A mountain landform with anticlines and synclines
Fold Mountain
The crushed sediment carried along by glaciers is known as what?
Till
Name the three different types of volcanos
Shield, Cinder Cone, Stratovolcanoes
Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) is an intensity scale that rates a volcano on what two components?
Destructiveness and explosive power
An extinct underwater volcano.
Seamount
The height of a mountains peak above mean sea level.
Eelevation
Buttes, pinnacles, and fins are erosional remnants of this type of landform.
Plateaus
The depression at the top of most volcanic cones
Crater
Magma is classified by the percentage of this compound
Silica
Arch of rock layers often found in fold mountains
Anticline
Broad flat-topped hill with steep sides
Mesa
Moraine
The three classifications of volcanoes based on its activity
Active, Dormant, Extinct
The rate at which temperature rises with increasing depth into the earth's interior
Geothermal gradient
Sunken rock layers caused by an emptied magma chamber.
Basin
Mountain landform created by forces acting on earth's crust
Tectonic Mountains
Wind deposited hills of small rock like particles.
Sand dune
Laccoliths and Batholiths are both examples of what intrusive igneous feature?
Pluton
This term is used to describe the balance of the weights of the rocky materials, water, and ice in and on the earth's crust against the upward push of the mantle.
Isostasy
This type of landform is a plateau.
Uplift landform
The measurement of a mountain from its base to its summit
Actual Height
Ridges deposited by glaciers.
Moraine
Volcanos are made up of this kind of rock
Igneous
The geologic history of the origin of mountains.
Orogeny