BJU Earth Science Chapter 7 Quiz

Which mountain has the highest elevation in the world?

Which mountain has the greatest actual height?

What is the balance of forces in the crust that contribute to an area's variations in elevation?

• Geology

• Isostasy

• Orogeny

• Topography

What is measured from sea level?

What is the measurement from the base of a mountain to its summit?

Famous example of a fault-block moutain?

Rift valleys are what type of landform? Convergent or divergent?

All are examples of a depositional landform except.....

• drumlins

• mesas

• sand dunes

• volcanoes

In a basin, where is the youngest layer of earth?

• top

• bottom

• outside

• center

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What type of landforms are anticlines and synclines?

• Fold Mountains

• Rift Valleys

• Rift Valley Lakes

• Fault-Block Mountains

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1