Chapter 2 - Land forms of Mindanao

Question 1

(3) Land forms in Mindanao

Answer 1

1. Mountain Ranges
2. Upland Plateaus
3. Lowlands
4. Basilan

Question 2

The mountains of Mindanao can conveniently be grouped into five ranges, including both ____ ____ ____and ____.

Answer 2

complex structural mountains
volcanoes

Question 3

show broad exposures of Mesozoic rock with ultra- basic rocks at the surface in many places along the east coast.

Answer 3

The structural mountains on the extreme eastem and western portion of the island

Question 4

Paralleling the east coast, from Bilas Point in Surigao del Norte to Cape Agustin in southeast Davao, is a range of complex mountains known in their northem portion as the ____ ____

Answer 4

Diwata mountains

Question 5

Where is a range of complex mountains known in their northern portion as the diwata mountains found

Answer 5

Bilas Point in Surigao del Norte to Cape Agustin in southeast Davao

Question 6

Diwata mountains, north of these low portion, are considerably higher and more rugged, reaching an elevation of 2,012 meters in ____ ____, 17 miles northeast of Butuan city.

Answer 6

Mount Hilonghilong

Question 8

Are numerous coral reefs and tiny islets

Answer 8

Off - shore

Question 9

A few miles off-shore is found the Mindanao or _____ ___

Answer 9

Philippine Deep

Question 10

This ocean trench, reaching measured depths of 35,400 feet, marks one of the greatest depths known on the earth’s surface.

Answer 10

the Mindanao or Philippine Deep.

Question 11

are marked by a series of small coastal lowlands separated one from the other by rugged forelands which extend to the water’s edge.

Answer 11

The east-facing coastal regions of Davao and Surigao del Sur

Question 12

• extends along the western boarders of Agusan and Davao provinces from Camiguin island in the north to Tinaca point in the south.
  -This range is mainly structural in origin, but it also contains at least three active volcanic peaks.
• In the central and northern portions of this range, there are several peaks between 2,000 and 2,500 meters, and here the belt of mountains is about 30 miles across

Answer 12

A second north-south range

Question 13

A second north-south range is mainly ___ in origin, but it also contains at least ___ active volcanic peaks.

Answer 13

structural
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