Sunken rock layers caused by an emptied magma chamber.
What is a basin?
100
Rising magma and this other process is thought to be involved in the formation of a monadnock.
What is erosion?
100
Name a primary cause of most depositional mountains and hills.
What is glacier, wind, or volcano?
100
The height of a mountains peak above mean sea level.
What is elevation?
200
An extinct underwater volcano.
What is seamount?
200
This type of mountain is predominant in the Sierra Nevada range.
What is fault-block?
200
A flat-topped hill with steep sides.
What is a mesa?
200
Name a primary cause of most depositional mountains and hills.
What is glacier, wind, volcano?
200
On this continent you will find not only the world's highest mountain but 96 out of the 109 tallest peaks in the world.
What is Asia?
300
Arch of rock layers.
What is anticline?
300
A trough-like fold of rock strata.
What is syncline?
300
Buttes, pinnacles, and fins are erosional remnants of this type of landform.
What are plateaus?
300
Depositional is a term that applies to the formation of this type of landform.
What is volcano?
300
The process believed to occur at mid-ocean ridges.
What is sea-floor spreading?
400
This type of landform is a monocline.
What is convergent landform?
400
This type of landform is a graben.
What is divergent landform?
400
A pile of broken rocks that collects at the base of a cliff.
What is talus?
400
This is what kames and eskers are made of.
What is till?
400
This term is used to describe 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?
500
This type of landform is a plateau.
What is uplift landform?
500
This type of landform is a basin.
What is subsidence landform?
500
Name three types of erosional hills and mountains.