Chapter 7 Test 🏔 Flashcards
The type of map that shows height using colors
Topography
The term that describes the balance of the weights of rock, water, and ice
Isostasy
Types of places on earth like mountains, valleys, beaches, plains, deserts, plateaus, and lakes
Landforms
The making of mountains through tectonic processes
Orogeny
A natural elevation of the earth’s surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit
Mountain
The highest point on a hill or mountain
Summit
An elevated place but not tall enough to be a mountain
Hill
The measurement from ocean level to a mountain’s summit
Elevation
The height of a mountain measured from its base to its summit
Actual Height
The nature of the surrounding land
Terrain
The tallest mountain measured using Actual Height and not Elevation
Mauna Kea
A series of mountain peaks in the same geographical area
Mountain Range
A group of mountain ranges connected over a much larger area
Mountain System
A deposit of eroded earth materials
Sediment
Mountains that are formed by folding rock strata
Fold Mountains
An arch of rock layers
Anticline
A trough or downward fold of rock strata
Syncline
A single step of rock strata
Monocline
In the center of a rift are low areas where rocks cracked and dropped downward
Grabens
A large shallow lake in eastern Africa
Lake Victoria
When landform with sedimentary strata looks like an upside-down bowl
Dome
When landform with sedimentary strata looks like a bowl
Basin
Mountains that are carved out by extensive erosion
Erosional Mountains
Broad, flat-topped hills remaining from the erosion process
Mesas
Smaller flat-topped hills
Buttes
Sloped piles of broken rock that collect at the base of cliffs
Talus
Tall spires of rock that are all that remain of an eroded plateau
Pinnacles
Blade-like formations of rock
Fins
Lone mountains formed by solidified magma
Monadnocks
When sediments build up on land from wind or glaciers or volcanoes
Depositional Mountains
Long relatively low ridges of glacial till that form mostly at the front and sides of glaciers
Moraines
