Chapter 7 Test 🏔

Question 1

The type of map that shows height using colors

Answer 1

Topography

Question 2

The term that describes the balance of the weights of rock, water, and ice

Answer 2

Isostasy

Question 3

Types of places on earth like mountains, valleys, beaches, plains, deserts, plateaus, and lakes

Answer 3

Landforms

Question 4

The making of mountains through tectonic processes

Answer 4

Orogeny

Question 5

A natural elevation of the earth’s surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit

Answer 5

Mountain

Question 6

The highest point on a hill or mountain

Answer 6

Summit

Question 7

An elevated place but not tall enough to be a mountain

Answer 7

Hill

Question 8

The measurement from ocean level to a mountain’s summit

Answer 8

Elevation

Question 9

The height of a mountain measured from its base to its summit

Answer 9

Actual Height

Question 10

The nature of the surrounding land

Answer 10

Terrain

Question 11

The tallest mountain measured using Actual Height and not Elevation

Answer 11

Mauna Kea

Question 12

A series of mountain peaks in the same geographical area

Answer 12

Mountain Range

Question 13

A group of mountain ranges connected over a much larger area

Answer 13

Mountain System

Question 14

A deposit of eroded earth materials

Answer 14

Sediment

Question 15

Mountains that are formed by folding rock strata

Answer 15

Fold Mountains

Question 16

An arch of rock layers

Answer 16

Anticline

Question 17

A trough or downward fold of rock strata

Answer 17

Syncline

Question 18

A single step of rock strata

Answer 18

Monocline

Question 19

In the center of a rift are low areas where rocks cracked and dropped downward

Answer 19

Grabens

Question 20

A large shallow lake in eastern Africa

Answer 20

Lake Victoria

Question 21

When landform with sedimentary strata looks like an upside-down bowl

Answer 21

Dome

Question 22

When landform with sedimentary strata looks like a bowl

Answer 22

Basin

Question 23

Mountains that are carved out by extensive erosion

Answer 23

Erosional Mountains

Question 24

Broad, flat-topped hills remaining from the erosion process

Answer 24

Mesas

Question 25

Smaller flat-topped hills

Answer 25

Buttes

Question 26

Sloped piles of broken rock that collect at the base of cliffs

Answer 26

Talus

Question 27

Tall spires of rock that are all that remain of an eroded plateau

Answer 27

Pinnacles

Question 28

Blade-like formations of rock

Answer 28

Fins

Question 29

Lone mountains formed by solidified magma

Answer 29

Monadnocks

Question 30

When sediments build up on land from wind or glaciers or volcanoes

Answer 30

Depositional Mountains

Question 31

Long relatively low ridges of glacial till that form mostly at the front and sides of glaciers

Answer 31

Moraines