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1
Q

A break in the rocks pushes the hanging wall up, caused by compression

A

Thrush fault

2
Q

A break in the earths crust pushes up a high land from

A

Fault block mountains

3
Q

A break in the rocks causes the hanging wall to slide down, caused by expansion

A

Normal fault

4
Q

A down warping bend in the rocks with the top layers in the middle

A

Syncline

5
Q

A flat area is broken and one part becomes a high flat area

A

Fault plateau

6
Q

A lake dries up and leaves a low flat area

A

Lake plain

7
Q

A ice sheet plows an area then leaves its sediments as a flat area

A

Glacier plains

8
Q

An up warping bend in the rocks with the lower layers in the middle

A

Anticline

9
Q

Compression and wrinkling cause a high landform

A

Folded mountains

10
Q

Huge lava flows create a high flat area

A

Lava plateau

11
Q

Igneous material surfaces and piles up into a high landform

A

Volcanic mountains

12
Q

Lava pools cool to form a low flat area

A

Lava plain

13
Q

Molten rock pushes up rocks above it to make a high landform

A

Domed mountains

14
Q

Rocks break and move sideways past each other

A

Strike slip fault

15
Q

Rock layers are bent producing a high flat area

A

Warped plateau

16
Q

Sediments deposited by a river create a low flat area

A

Alluvial plains

17
Q

Sediments deposited by the receding oceans create a low flat area

A

Costal plains

18
Q

What do rocks show when they are bent into tight folds with no evidence of heating or breaking

A

Sediments being soft when folded