What is a Mountain?
Tectonic Mountains
What type of Instrument?
Characters from Old Cartoons
100
(True or False) The Relief and Elevation of the small islands that are entirely volcanos are the same thing?
True
100
(True or False) Through Earth's history, rock strata have piled up and become highly folded along mid-ocean ridges.
False
200
Where is the most extensive mountain system in the world located?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
200
How are tectonic mountains formed?
When tectonic plates collide, pull apart, lift up, or subside.
300
What is an areas topography?
It is a variety of elevations and arrangement of landforms.
300
Where are most lift valleys located?
Along mid-oceans ridges
400
How do we measure the elevation of a mountain's summit?
Elevation of a mountain's summit is measured from mean sea level
400
What are the three kinds of folds in mountains?
Anticlines, Synclines, Monoclines
500
What Term describes the tectonic origins of mountains and the processes that build them?
Orogeny
500
What is an exception of a rift valley that is NOT located where all other rift valleys are?
East African Rift Zone.
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