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Refers ti the forces and events that lead to a large structural deformation of earth lithosphere

Orogeny

Tge top of the mountain called

Summit

The side of the mountain

Slope

The science that specifically concerned with the study of mountain

Geomorphology

The highest mountain system and also the youngest in the word

Himalaya range

Himalaya comes from the sanskrit language mean

House of snow or snowy range

The longest mountain chain in tye world

Andes

The oldest mountain in the united state

Appalachians

Largest mountain system in europe

Alps

Are group of jagged snow capped peaks that run through the western part of northern america

Rocky mountain

Ai autralian most substantial mountain and the third longest base range in the world

Great dividing range

He proposed the seafloor spreading

Harry hess

The divergent also called

Constructive

The covergent also called

Destructive

The transform also called

Conservative

On the other hand, is the study of the current terrain feature of a region and the graphic representation of a particular landform of the map

Topography

Are formed by tge chemical and mechanical action of the wind

Aeolian

Are mounds ir small hills made up of sand

Dunes

Is a predominatly silt size sediment by accumulation of windblow dust

Loess

Are also called rock pedestal, is naturally occuring when rock that resembles the shape of a mushroom

Mushroom rock

Are created by exlusively erosional and weathering activieties

Erosional landforms

Also called table mountain, are elevated areas land wirh a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs

Mesas

This tyoe is almost simioar to mesas formed to semi arid desert condition

Buttes

Sometimes called gorge is a deep ravine between cliffs that is often carved from the landscape by a river, wind or glacier

Canyons

Are those higher than the rest of their surrounding

Mountain landform

Are elevated portion of land that are formed by geolic activies such as faulting

Hills

Are low lying areas of a land situated between hills or mountain

Valleys

Are results of the actions of the glaciers

Glacial landform

Are landform that are controlled by geological process that form them and continually act on them after their fomation

Volacano

Are those that underwent sedimentation, erosion or deposition on a river bed

Fluvial landform

Is typically a low lying triangular areas located at the mouth of the rivers

Delta

Also called byland and biland, is the pices of the land that projects into a body of the water and its connected with the mountain of isthmus

Peninsula

Is a bend in a sinous watercourse of a river

Meander

Are high rocky coasts that plunge down to the edge of the sea.

Sea cliff

Are flat and broad land area that have no great changes in elevation when measured with references to thr mean sea level

Plains

Also known as table lands or flat topped mountain, are portions of land elevated thousands of feet above their surroundings.

Plateaus