Earth Science Test

Question 1

Is Mount Everest growing taller year by year

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

What is the highest mountain in the world

Answer 2

mount everest

Question 3

What is the gologic history of the origin of mountains called

Answer 3

orogeny

Question 4

the major difference between a mountain and a hill is the difference in their ________

Answer 4

height

Question 5

What term is used to descrube the balance of weights of the rocky materials, water, and ice in and on the earth’s crust against the upward push of the mantle

Answer 5

Isostasy

Question 6

Elevation of a mountains peak above what

Answer 6

mean sea level

Question 7

Is a series of mountain peaks in the same geographical area called a mountain system

Answer 7

no

Question 8

A certain mountian’s peak is 2,300 m above sea level its base is 200m below sea level what is the actual height

Answer 8

2,500m

Question 9

Which of thse regions would you expect to have the greated relief a region having only plains a regon having mountain and valleys a region having small hillls and valleys a region including only the top of a plateau

Answer 9

a region having mountain and valleys

Question 10

on which contient will you find not only the world’s highest mountain but 96 of the 109 tallest peaks in the world

Answer 10

Asia

Question 11

Can mountains be underwter on continestns and on islands

Answer 11

yes

Question 12

What is the highest peak in North America

Answer 12

Mt. Mckinley or Denali

Question 13

Where is the longest and most extensive mountain system on earth

Answer 13

mid atlantic ridge

Question 14

Do closely spaced contours idicate a steep slope

Answer 14

yes

Question 15

can tectonic mountaisn form not only at ovnergent zones but also at divergent zones

Answer 15

yes

Question 16

Mountain landforsm taht are made of anticlines and synclines are what

Answer 16

fold mountain

Question 17

What is a trough like fold of rock state

Answer 17

synclines

Question 18

What is an arch or rock layer called

Answer 18

anticlines

Question 19

what is a single step of rock layers above a fault called

Answer 19

monoclines

Question 20

What landform is a monocline

Answer 20

covergent landform

Question 21

are most rift valleys benath the sea but some are on land

Answer 21

yes

Question 22

What landform is a fault block mountain

Answer 22

divergent landform

Question 23

the sierra nevada range has mountais with gentle western slopes and steep easetern cliffs what tyep of mountain is predominant in the sierra nevada range

Answer 23

fault block

Question 24

What lanfrom is a palteau

Answer 24

uplift landform

Question 25

what is a large area of flat elevated land called

Answer 25

plateau

Question 26

almost the entire state of michigan is a_________ caused by ______________

Answer 26

basin;Subsidence

Question 27

What is the sunken rock layers caused by an emptied magma chabmer called

Answer 27

basins

Question 28

What lanform is basin

Answer 28

subsidence landform

Question 29

What is an extinct undrwater volcano called

Answer 29

seamounts

Question 30

What is a flat topped hill with steep sides called

Answer 30

mesas

Question 31

is a pile of broken rocks that collect at the base of a cliff called talus

Answer 31

yes

Question 32

Buttes pinnacles and fins are all thought to be erosianl remnants of uplift lanforms such as what

Answer 32

plateaus

Question 33

Mountain is to hill as mesa is to

Answer 33

buttes

Question 34

Which of these is thought to be involved in the formation o f monadnock depotsion erosion glacier rift

Answer 34

erosion

Question 35

Which of these is not a primary cause of most depostitional hills and mountains glacier uplifing volcano and wind

Answer 35

uplifing

Question 36

can the formation of stoen arches be early expalined by the process of gradual erosion

Answer 36

no

Question 37

Kanes and eskers are both made up of glacial _______

Answer 37

till

Question 38

What are ridges deposited by galciers called

Answer 38

moraines

Question 39

which of the following terms appies to tthe formation of volcanoes erosioanl depostiotnal glacial residual

Answer 39

depositional

Question 40

Does the temperature increase as you gain altitude

Answer 40

no