Chapter 16

Question 1

What is actual height of a mountain?

Answer 1

The height of its summit above the surrounding terrain

Question 2

What is relief?

Answer 2

The difference in height between a region’s highest and lowest points relative to sea level

Question 3

What is a mountain range?

Answer 3

A series of mountain peaks is called a mountain range

Question 4

What is a mountain system?

Answer 4

A group of mountain ranges is a mountain system

Question 5

What is a depositional mountain?

Answer 5

Depositional mountains formed by the accumulation of rocks on the earth’s surface.

Question 6

What are erosional mountains?

Answer 6

Erosional mountains are also called residual mountains. They are mountains that were carved out by extensive erosion, usually from a plot

Question 7

What is a residual mountain?

Answer 7

Another name for an erosional mountain

Question 8

What is a fold mountain?

Answer 8

Mountain formed by the folding of rock

Question 9

What is anticline?

Answer 9

An arch of rock layers

Question 10

what is a syncline?

Answer 10

A trough or downward fold of rock strata

Question 11

What is a mono line?

Answer 11

A folder that occurs when one part of a rock layer is lifted relative to another along a fault forming what looks like a rounded step

Question 12

What is a dome?

Answer 12

A structure in which the sedimentary strata arch upward like an inverted bowel

Question 13

What is a basin?

Answer 13

The opposite of a dumb. Basins could have formed when magma drained away from reservoirs beneath sedimentary strata, allowing gravity to cause layers to sag

Question 14

What is a joint?

Answer 14

A joint is a large crack in the rock along which no movement has occurred.

Question 15

What is a fault?

Answer 15

A fault is a crack along which there has been slippage or movement

Question 16

What is a normal fault?

Answer 16

If the body of rock under the fault rises in relation to the rock above the fault then the fault is called a normal fault

Question 17

What is a reverse fault?

Answer 17

If the body of rock above the fault rises in relation to the other body, the fault is called a reverse fault

Question 18

What is a strike-slip fault?

Answer 18

If the only motion along the fourth is horizontal, then the fault is called a strike-slip fault

Question 19

What is a fault-block mountain?

Answer 19

A mountain bounded by one or more normal faults

Question 20

What is oregeny?

Answer 20

Geologist call the origin of mountains oregeny

Question 21

What is the geosyncline theory?

Answer 21

According to this theory, immense trough-like synclines, or geosynclines, many hundreds of thousands of kilometers in width and length, were gradually filled with sediment from surrounding terrain. The weight of the sediments cause the geosyncline to subside or sink, allowing more sediment to collect and solidify into rock. Later, an uplifting force push the sediment upward, folding and fracturing them into mountains

Question 22

What is elevation?

Answer 22

A height measurement given in meters or feet above sea level

Question 23

What is the continental drift theory

Answer 23

All the modern continents had started in a large single continent call Ed Pangaea

Question 24

What is Pangaea

Answer 24

A land mass surrounded by a global ocean

Question 25

What is Panthalassa Ocean

Answer 25

The earths single water surrounding Pangaea

Question 26

What is a rift

Answer 26

A crack in the oceans floor crust.

Question 27

What is sea floor spreading

Answer 27

Lower density rock deep in the mantle rose in thermal plumes which collided with the underside of the lithosphere. The plume then splits and moved sideways pulling the lithosphere apart in yep directions.

Question 28

What is a retinue plate

Answer 28

Distinct segments of the earths crust that seem to be slowly moving.

Question 29

What is an island arc

Answer 29

String of islands

Question 30

What is subduction

Answer 30

Is the process of the oceanic crust goes under the continental crust

Question 31

What are plate tectonics?

Answer 31

An explanation for how the continents drifted and are continuing to drive today.uniform and Terry and geologist believe the plate tectonics provide the forces that have formed and are forming the mountains and other features of the earths surface. This is the underlying evolutionary theory of most physical geology today

Question 32

What is runaway subduction?

Answer 32

This process involves a rapid slipping of oceanic plates under adjacent plates, moving it speeds of many kilometers per hour rather than just a few centimeters per year. This is a Creationary response to tech tonic plate’s

Question 33

What is catastrophic plate tech tonic’s?

Answer 33

A Creationary Siri of the origin of the continents that suggests that the earths crust was created with a single supercontinent. This continent broke into tech tonic plates during the initial stage of the Genesis flood. Rapid subduction of the oceanic plates through the fragments of the con it’s a part to approximately there present-day positions in less than a year

Question 34

What is the highest mountain on earth?

Answer 34

Mount Everest

Question 35

Highest mountain in North America?

Answer 35

Mount McKinley

Question 36

What is the highest mountain in the continental United States?

Answer 36

Mount Whitney

Question 37

What is the most expensive mountain system on the earth?

Answer 37

The mid Atlantic Ridge

Question 38

What are contour lines?

Answer 38

Any line on a map that shows elevation above or below some reference hi, such as sea level

Question 39

What is a series of mountain ranges called

Answer 39

Mountain system

Question 40

What is a series of mountain peaks called?

Answer 40

Mountain range

Question 41

What type of mountains of the sierra Nevada?

Answer 41

Fault – block mountain

Question 42

Where did noah’s Ark rest?

Answer 42

Mount Ararat

Question 43

Where did Abraham offer his son Isaac?

Answer 43

Mount Mariah

Question 44

What mountain will Jesus return to?

Answer 44

Jesus left the earth from the mound of olives and promised to come back one day

Question 45

Who was the first person to reach the top of Mount Everest?

Answer 45

Sir Edmund Hillary

Question 46

When did the erosional process that formed maces and buttes occur?

Answer 46

During the flood

Question 47

Who was Alfred Wegener?

Answer 47

Believed that all modern cotton started as a single large continent called Pangaea. He points out the similar fit of continental shorelines, similar geologic features and regions of the modern continents that were adjacent to each other in the beginning, and the existence of similar kinds of fossils in these regions.