BJU Earth Science Chapter 7

What is an area's topography?

• less
• elevations caused by different landforms in a region
• buttes are smaller
• height and local customs

What geologic term describes the origins of mountains and the processes that build them?

• elevations caused by different landforms in a region
• Orogeny
• subsidence landform
• Fold and Fault (Tectonic)

What is the measurement from sea level to the summit of a mountain called?

• uplift
• height and local customs
• depositional
• Mountain's Actual Height

What is the measurement from the base of the mountain to it's summit called?

• steep slope
• subsidence landform
• Sediment
• Mountain's Actual Height

Where is the longest, most, extensive mountain system in the world located?

• monoclines
• by water, wind, ice, and gravity
• Mid atlantic ridge
• divergent

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Tectonic mountains are created when what happens?

• convergent landform
• they stand out from flat plains as a lone mountain
• greater
• tectonic plates collide, pull apart, lift or subside

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What are "dome shape" mountain folds called?

• Orogeny
• synclines
• Atlantic
• anticlines

What are "u shaped" mountain folds called?

• synclines
• Mt. Whitney aka Mt. Denali
• subsidence landform
• greater

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What are mountain folds where one side is lifted like a step called?

• monoclines
• extinct underwater volcano
• rising magma and erosion
• lava deposited and piles up

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Most of the rift valley structures are located at the mid-ocean ridges between the diverging oceanic plates. What is one major exception to that rule?

• Mid Atlantic Ridge
• isostasy
• The East African Rift Zone
• talus

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