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the geologic history of the origin of the mountains
What is orogeny?
a large area of flat, elevated land
What is a plateau?
an arch-like form of folded rock layers
What is an anticline?
a trough-like fold of rock strata
What is syncline?
Sunken rock layers caused by empty magma chambers.
What is a basin?
extinct underwater volcano
What is a seamount?
The longest mountain system in the world
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
On a topographical map, closely spaced contour lines indicate what type of slope?
What is a steep slope?
The world's highest mountain is located on this continent.
What is Asia?
This mountain has the highest elevation in North America
What is Mt. McKinley?
sea-floor spreading occurs here
What is at mid-ocean ridges?
Buttes, pinnacles, and fins are remnants of these
What are plateaus?
This state is almost entirely a basin caused by subsidence.
What is Michigan
flat-topped hill with steep sides
What is a mesa?
This type of mountain is plentiful in the Sierra Nevada range
What is a fault-block mountain?
ridges deposited by glaciers
What are moraines?
grabens at this type of plate boundary
What is divergent?
basins are a type of this landform
What is subsidence?
Rising magma and erosion are involved in the formation of what?
What is a monadnock?
A monocline is found at this boundary.
What is convergent?
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
What is isostasy?
a series of mountain peaks in the same geographical area
What is a mountain range?
the two zones in which tectonic mountains can form
What are convergent and divergent boundaries?
Most rift valleys are located here.
What is in the ocean?
A pile of broken rocks that collects at the base of a cliff.
What is talus?