FlashcardsMountain Formation and Topography Flashcards
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This 45-card set covers mountain formation and topography for eighth-grade earth science, including key concepts like isostasy, sea-floor spreading, anticlines, and tectonic versus erosional mountains. Cards address relief measurement, glacial and volcanic mountain formation, and landforms like mesas, buttes, and plateaus. Suitable for chapter review, vocabulary reinforcement, or exam preparation in a geology or earth-systems unit.
Terms in This Set
- Mt Everest
- Isostasy
- What region would you expect to have the greatest relief?
- Mid Atlantic Ridges
- sea-floor spreading
- What are the primary causes of most depositional hills and mountains?
- anticline
- basin
- dome
- moraine
- seamount
- monocline
- plateaus
- plateaus are
- topography
- basin
- How is a mountain's height measured?
- The actual height of a mountain is the
- Relief
- rift
- fault block mountains
- rift valley
- pinnacles
- mesas and buttes
- erosion causes
- When sediments build up on land, they can form
- Depositional Hills and Mountains
- Glacial-formed mountains and hills
- volcanic-formed mountains
- What is needed for sedimentary rock strata to smoothly fold?
- till
- tectonic mountains
- erosional mountains
- depositional mountains
- Age of the layers in a anticline
- Age of the layers in a syncline
- Age of the layers in a basin
- Age of the layers in a dome
- mesa
- volcanic neck
- made of till
- complex tectonic mountains
- buttes, mesas, and other erosional features were
- What is used to map mountains?
- Mt Mona Kea
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