Vocabulary Words
Every continent and ocean basin has a variety of elevations arranged in different ways, these factors determine the ______________ of an area
what is topography?
A group of mountain ranges connected over a much larger area is a _____________
What is a mountain system?
What is the difference between a mountain and a hill?
Mostly its height
What is sediment?
a deposit of eroded earth materials. It collects in low sports, usually in streambeds or under bodies of water
What is the 2nd tallest mountain?
K-2 or Mount Everest
A big part of geology is identifying and naming the shapes of the structures on the earth's surface or its ____________________________
What is landforms
______________ is the nature of the surrounding land, topography
What is terrain?
How do we measure the elevation of a mountain's summit?
the elevation of a mountains summit is measured from mean sea level
What is anticlines mountains?
They are forced upward into an arch
The highest point on a mountain is the
summit
We can define a ________________ as a "natural elevation of the earth's surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit."
What is a mountain?
A mountain's ________________ is the lowest elevation of nearby terrain from which the mountain rises to a peak.
What is a base?
In your case study you did in your book what was the name of the adventurer studying mountains
The are a trough or downward fold of rock strata
A landform with sedimentary strata that looks like an upside down bowl is called a
Dome
The ____________________ of a mountain is the height of its summit above the lowest elevation of the surrounding terrain, or its base.
The ______________ is the highest point on a hill or mountain.
What is a summit?
Can someone serve God by doing work similar to the work Brad Washburn did?
Yes of course!
What is monocline?
large portion of rock deep under sediment strata broke along a fault and rose or subsided.
We expect to find tectonic mountains near _________ tectonics boundaries
convergent
A mountains actual height is related to how mountains or hilly a region is referred to as ____________ of the region.
Its elevations and arrangement of landforms
How do mountains form?
Tectonic forces, tectonic movement
What are rift valleys?
A rift is a series of steep walled valleys lined with high cliffs rising from faults parallel to the valley
The Sierra Nevada mountain range is an example _____ mountains. They are set apart by one or more normal faults
Fault- Block