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| a natural elevation rising more or less abruptly to a summit |
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| differ between mountain and hill |
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| highest mountain on earth |
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| the height of the summit above the surrounding terrain |
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| the mountain that has the greatest actual height |
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under the ocean's surface |
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| where most of the height of mauna kea is located |
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| the highest mountain in North America |
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| the highest mountain in the 48 adjoining states |
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| the difference in height between a region's highest and lowest points |
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| a map that shows altitude |
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| measure areas of equal elevation |
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| the first man to reach the top of mt everest |
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| mid-atlantic ridge in the atlantic ocean |
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| the most extensive mountain system in the world |
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| where jesus ascend to heaven |
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| depositional,fold,erosional,and fault-block |
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| mts. form by accumulation(amount) of rocks on the earth surface |
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| build up when lava spills out and harden into rocks and cinders |
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| wind deposited hills of sand |
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| part of the united states that was once covered in glaciers |
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| long,streamlined hills deposited by glaciers |
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| a region of flatrock structure having a high elevation |
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| broad flat,top hills remaining from the dissection(cut apart) process |
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| throught rapid currents of the flood |
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| how most erosional mountains such as mesas,buttes,and monadocks where formed |
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| types of mts formed by folding of rocks |
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| trough or downward fold of rock strata |
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| a structure in which the sedimentary strata arch upward like an inverted bowl |
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| the opposite of a dome where the rocks dip down like a bowl |
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| a large crack along which there has been no slippage or movement |
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| a mt range made of fault block mountains |
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| a large area covered by a syncline |
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| geosyncline theory leaves out |
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| no explanation for force that cause mts to lift up |
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| the continentional drift theory |
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| the theory that views the earth as a solid shell floating on a liquid interior |
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| a trough like zone along the peak of a mid ocean ridge |
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| where sea floor spreading occurs |
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| distinct,slowly moving segments of the earth's crust |
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| continental margins and island arcs |
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| subduction plates thought to be melting in the mantle |
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| catastrophic plate tectonics |
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| the belief that the crust fractured and broke apart |
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| the name of all the continents that was once connected together |
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| the once single global ocean |
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| determines the differ between mountain and hill |
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| types of depositional mts |
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| volcanoes, sand dunes, moraines, and drumlins |
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| appear to have been cut by erosion from plateau |
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a fold that occurs when one part of a rock layer is lifted relative to another along a fault
looks like a rounded step |
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| rises in relation to the rock above the fault |
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| opposite of a normal fault |
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| when the reverse fault angle is less than 45 degrees |
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| if motion along the fault is horizontal |
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| a crack along which there has been slippage |
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| a mt gathered by one or more normal faults |
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| when the mid-ocean ridges spread and took the continents with them |
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| bends downward and slides under the continental crust hundreds of km into the mantle |
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| involves a rapid slipping of oceanic crust under adjacement plates |
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