Chapter 7

Question 1

The highest mountain in the world is ________

Answer 1

Mr. Everest

Question 2

The term _______ is used to describe the balance of the weights of the rocky material, water, and ice in and on the earth’s crust against the upward push of the mantle.

Answer 2

isostasy

Question 3

Elevation is the height of a mountain’s peak above ______

Answer 3

mean sea level

Question 4

The mountain with the highest elevation in North America is __________

Answer 4

Mt. McKinley

Question 5

Which of the following regions would you expect to have the greatest relief?

Answer 5

a region having mountains and valleys

Question 6

On which continent will you find not only the world’s highest mountain but 96 of the 109 tallest peaks in the world?

Answer 6

Asia

Question 7

Mountains can be…..

Answer 7

underwater, on continents, islands

Question 8

The longest and most extensive mountain system on the earth is the ________

Answer 8

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Question 9

Which process is believed to occur at mid-ocean ridges?

Answer 9

sea-floor spreading

Question 10

What type of mountain is predominant in the Sierra Nevada range?

Answer 10

fault-block

Question 11

Almost the entire state of Michigan is a _______ caused by _______

Answer 11

basin / subsidence

Question 12

Buttes, pinnacles and fins are all thought to be erosional remnants of _________

Answer 12

plateaus

Question 13

Which of the following does not belong with the other three?

1. fault-block
2. mesa
3. monadnock
4. butte

Answer 13

fault-block

Question 14

What is thought to be involved in the formation of a monadnock?

Answer 14

rising magma and erosion

Question 15

What are the primary causes of most depositional hills and mountains?

Answer 15

glacier, volcano, wind

Question 16

What term applies to the formation of volcanoes?

Answer 16

depositional

Question 17

The geological history of the origin of mountains is called __________

Answer 17

orogeny

Question 18

The major difference between a mountain and a hill is the difference in their __________

Answer 18

heights and local/historical traditions

Question 19

A (n) _________ is a trough-like fold of rock strata.

Answer 19

syncline

Question 20

A (n) ________ is a large area of flat elevated land.

Answer 20

plateau

Question 21

Mountain is to hill as mesa is to _________

Answer 21

butte

Question 22

Kames and eskers are both made up of glacial _______

Answer 22

till

Question 23

A certain mountain’s peak is 2300 m above sea level. Its base is 200 m below sea level. What is the actual height?

Answer 23

2500 m

Question 24

What do closely spaces contour lines on a map indicate?

Answer 24

closely spaced contours indicate a steep slope

Question 25

When is it likely that the erosion processes that formed buttes and mesas occurred?

Answer 25

buttes, mesas, and other erosional features probably formed as the waters from the Flood receded.

Question 26

Changes in which two factors cause the extreme changes in biomes as you climb to the summit of a tall mountain such as Kilimanjaro?

Answer 26

The temperature and amount of precipitation (rainfall) decrease as you gain altitude.

Question 27

arch of rock layers

Answer 27

anticline

Question 28

trough of rock layers

Answer 28

syncline

Question 29

sunken rock layers caused by emptied magma chamber

Answer 29

basin

Question 30

extinct underwater volcano

Answer 30

seamount

Question 31

flat-topped hill with steep sides

Answer 31

mesa

Question 32

ridges deposited by glaciers

Answer 32

moraine

Question 33

convergent landform

Answer 33

monocline

Question 34

divergent landform

Answer 34

grabens

Question 35

subsidence landform

Answer 35

basin

Question 36

uplift landform

Answer 36

plateau

Question 37

True or False:

Mt. Everest is growing taller year by year

Answer 37

True

Question 38

True or False:

A series of mountain peaks in the same geographical area is called a mountain system

Answer 38

False

Question 39

True or False:

Tectonic mountains can form not only a convergent zones but also at divergent zones

Answer 39

True

Question 40

True or False:

Most rift valleys are beneath the sea but some are on land

Answer 40

True

Question 41

True or False:

A pile of broken rocks that collects at the base of a cliff is called talus

Answer 41

True

Question 42

True or False:

The formation of stone arches can be easily explained by the process of gradual erosion

Answer 42

False

Question 43

List and describe at least three forces that move sediment to change the earth’s surface

Answer 43

Much of the earth’s surface is covered with sedimentary rock that was laid down by moving water. Glaciers, slowly moving masses of snow and ice, also carry sediment and other materials that they have ground from the surface over which they have moved. This till can be deposited elsewhere. Wind causes erosion and can create sculpt sand dunes. Volcanoes bring material from within the earth and deposit then on the surface.

Question 44

Describe some of the unique geologic features of the western United States from a biblical perspective.

Answer 44

Many of the plateaus, the large relatively flat regions of sedimentary rock, were probably laid down rapidly by the Flood. Many of the erosional remnants of plateaus, such as buttes, mesas, pinnacles, fins, and arches, may have been created when water drained off the land and eroded away the softer material that had not yet hardened into rock.