science chapter 7 mountains and hills

Question 1

topography

Answer 1

the variation of land surface elevationscaused by different landforms in a region.

Question 2

isostacy

Answer 2

the balance beetween the downward weight of rock, water, and ice and the upward force exerted by the mantle.

Question 3

oregany

Answer 3

the scientific processes of building mountains and the landforms that result from mountain building.

Question 4

mountain

Answer 4

natural elevation of the Earth’s surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit.

Question 5

terrain/base

Answer 5

lowest elevation of mountain.

Question 6

Mauna Kea

Answer 6

Mountain that forms large point of Hawaii has greatest height of any mountain.

Question 7

mountain range

Answer 7

a series of mountain peaks in the same area.

Question 8

mountain system

Answer 8

a group of mountain ranges over a larger area.

Question 9

Pico Mountain

Answer 9

Highest under water mountain that peakes above water.

Question 10

fold mountains

Answer 10

mountains that form from folded rock strata

Question 11

anticline

Answer 11

arch of rock layers

Question 12

syncline

Answer 12

through or downward fold of rock strata formed like an anticline.

Question 13

monocline

Answer 13

smoothly folded strata that broke above a fault into a single step.

Question 14

grabens

Answer 14

low areas where rocks cracked and dropped downward.

Question 15

fault block mountains

Answer 15

bound by at least one fault. a landmass one one side of the fault rises

Question 16

plateaus

Answer 16

broad regions of relatively undisturbed sedimentary deposits lifted by some tectonic process.

Question 17

dome

Answer 17

landform with sedimentary strata that looks like an upside-down bowl.

Question 18

basin

Answer 18

opposite of dome.