Vocabulary
"The differences of land elevation in a given region" is the definition for what term?
What is topography
What is the longest most extensive mountain system on the earth?
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
What are two types of uplift landforms?
What is plateau and dome
What landform has a flat-top with steep sides?
What is a mesa (along with buttes and plateaus)
The sediments carried by glaciers are known as what?
What is till
A pile of broken rocks that collects at the base of a cliff is called what?
What is talus
Which type of fold is a trough of rock layers?
What is a syncline
What landform is sunken rock layers caused by an emptied magma chamber?
What is a basin
Mesas, buttes and pinnacles are all evidence of rapid erosion by what?
What is water
What two forms of deposition are sand dunes formed by?
What are water and wind deposition
Mountain landforms that are made of anticlines and synclines are called what?
What are fold mountains
What is the difference between a mountain's elevation and its actual height?
Elevation: Height above sea level
Actual Height: Height from its base
Rift valleys form in structures called what?
What is a graben
Is a monadnock a depositional or erosional landform?
What is erosional landform
Volcanoes are both tectonic and what?
What is depositional
In an eroded syncline, where are the old layers located?
What is on both sides of the fold
What terrains have the greatest relief? (2 answers)
What are the mountains and valleys
What tectonic boundary creates rifts?
What are divergent boundaries
Why does Mauna Kea have an actual height that is taller than Mount Everest?
What is because Mauna Kea's base is below sea level
What type of landform is a basin?
What is subsidence landform
Which type of fold is an arch of rock layers?
What is an anticline
What tectonic boundaries are found near tectonic mountains?
What are convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries and sinking crust
A normal fault that formed deep under a series of overlying rock strata could create what type of fold structure?
What is a monocline
In a geological dome, where are the youngest layers exposed?
What is on the edge of the dome
What is a ridge deposited by glaciers called?
What is a moraine