(8th-Grade) Chapter 7: Science Study Guide

"The differences of land elevations in a region."

• isostasy

• topography

• orogeny

"The height of a mountain's peak above mean sea level."

• actual height

• relief

• elevation

If you were to look for the longest and most extensive mountain system on this planet, where would you look?

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Rocky Mountains

• Alps

• Himalayan Range

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Match the topographic map to its profile image.

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What is the contour interval?

• 1 ft

• 5 ft

• 10 ft

• 60 ft

If you classify a mountain landform that came from forces inside the earth's crust, what would it be?

• erosional mountains

• monadnocks

• tectonic mountains

• depositional mountains

If you found a mountain that was made of anticlines and synclines, you would identify the mountain landform as a...

• depositional mountain

• fault-block mountain

• fold mountain

• basin

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The older, exposed rock that lies on both sides of a fold is considered to be an...

• eroded syncline

• eroded anticline

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Which THREE landforms are more closely related to each other than the fourth one?

• butte

• monadnock

• mesa

• fault-block

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