Vocab
The height of a mountain's peak above mean sea level is known as this.
What is elevation?
This type of fold mountain forms a step of rock layers.
What is a monocline?
Mountains can be located at these 3 locations in the world.
What is underwater, on continents, or on an island.
What is depositional?
An arch of rock layers.
What is an anticline?
The differences of land elevations in that region.
What is topography?
This type of fold mountain forms an arch of rock layers.
What is an anticline?
Rift structures are often located at these boundary zones.
What are divergent plate boundaries?
Stone Arches
What is erosional?
A step of rock layers.
What are monoclines?
The balance of the weights of the rocky materials, water, and ice on the earth's crust against the upward push of the mantle.
What is isostasy?
This type of fold mountain forms a trough of rock layers.
What is a syncline?
Tectonic mountains can form at these two tectonic zones.
What are convergent zones and divergent zones?
Monadnocks
What is erosional?
A trough of rock layers.
What are synclines?
What is relief?
This type of fold mountain has older, exposed rocks that lie on both sides of the fold.
What is a syncline?
Volcanoes
What is depositional?
A flat-topped hill with steep sides.
What is a mesa?
The tectonic processes and landforms of mountain building.
This type of fold mountain is a normal fault that formed deep under a series of overlying rock strata.
What is a monocline?
Sunken rock layers caused by emptied magma chambers.
What is a basin?