Landforms 1
Daily Double - A large area of flat, elevated land.
What is a plateau?
Sunken rock layers caused by an emptied magma chamber.
What is a basin?
Rising magma and this other process is thought to be involved in the formation of a monadnock.
What is erosion?
When sediments build up on land, they can form this type of landform
What is depositional?
The height of a mountains peak above mean sea level.
What is elevation?
An extinct underwater volcano.
What is seamount?
This type of mountain is predominant in the Sierra Nevada range.
What is fault-block?
A flat-topped hill with steep sides.
What is a mesa?
Name a primary cause of most depositional mountains and hills.
What is glacier, wind, volcano?
Arch of rock layers.
What is anticline?
A trough-like fold of rock strata.
What is syncline?
Daily Double - Buttes, pinnacles, and fins are erosional remnants of this type of landform.
What are plateaus?
Depositional is a term that can apply to the formation of this type of landform.
What is volcano?
The process believed to occur at mid-ocean ridges.
What is sea-floor spreading?
This type of landform is a monocline.
What is convergent landform?
This type of landform is a graben.
What is divergent landform?
A pile of broken rocks that collects at the base of a cliff.
What is talus?
Wind deposited hills of small rock like particles.
What is a sand dune?
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?
This type of landform is a plateau.
What is uplift landform?
This type of landform is a basin.
What is subsidence landform?
Name three types of erosional hills and mountains.
What are mesas, monadnocks, and buttes?
Ridges deposited by glaciers.
What is moraine?
Daily Double - The geologic history of the origin of mountains.
What is orogeny?