Chapter 7

The highest mountain in the world is?

• Mt Everest

• Mt Mitchell

• Mt Washington

• Mt Whitney

Which of the following regions would you expect to have the greatest relief?

• A region having only plains

• A region having mountains and valleys

• A region having small hills and valleys

• A region including only the top of a plateau

Mountains can be

• Underwater

• on continents

• on islands

• all of these

Which of the following does not belong with the other three?

• fault-block

• mesa

• monadnock

• butte

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of these is thought to be involved in the formation of a monadnock?

• rising magma

• erosion

• Both rising magma and erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of these is NOT a primary cause of most depositional hills and mountains

• glacier

• uplifting

• volcano

• wind

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of the following terms applies to the formation of volcanoes?

• erosional

• depositional

• glacial

• residual

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the difference between a mountain and a hill?

• elevation

• local traditions

• elevation and local tradition

Mountain is to hill as mesa is to

A monocline is a

• convergent landform

• divergent landform

• subsidence landform

• uplift landform