Landforms
A large area of flat, elevated land.
Plateau
A mountain landform with anticlines and synclines
Fold Mountain
The crushed sediment carried along by glaciers is known as what?
Till
Name the three different types of volcanos
Shield, Cinder Cone, Stratovolcanoes
Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) is an intensity scale that rates a volcano on what two components?
Destructiveness and explosive power
Sunken rock layers caused by an emptied magma chamber.
Basin
The height of a mountains peak above mean sea level.
Elevation
The movement of weathered materials
Erosion
The depression at the top of most volcanic cones
Crater
Magma is classified by the percentage of this compound
Silica
Arch of rock layers often found in fold mountains
Anticline
The measurement of a mountain from its base to its summit
Actual Height
Wind deposited hills of small rock like particles.
Sand dune
The three classifications of volcanoes based on its activity
Active, Dormant, Extinct
A volcanic mudslide
Lahar
The features of the earth's surface including different landforms with varying elevation
Topography
Mountain landform created by forces acting on earth's crust
Tectonic Mountains
When weathered materials that have been moved are placed down
Deposition
Volcanos are made up of this kind of rock
Igneous
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.
Isostasy
What is a volcanic neck
If the contour lines on a relief map are closer together, what does that mean about the hill?
The closer the lines the steeper the hill
Moraine
A layer of loose pyroclastic material covering the ground
Tephra
The three types of solidified lava that is ejected from a volcano and is identified by its size.
Ash (smallest), cinders (mid), bombs (largest)