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Refers ti the forces and events that lead to a large structural deformation of earth lithosphere |
Orogeny |
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Tge top of the mountain called |
Summit |
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The side of the mountain |
Slope |
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The science that specifically concerned with the study of mountain |
Geomorphology |
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The highest mountain system and also the youngest in the word |
Himalaya range |
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Himalaya comes from the sanskrit language mean |
House of snow or snowy range |
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The longest mountain chain in tye world |
Andes |
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The oldest mountain in the united state |
Appalachians |
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Largest mountain system in europe |
Alps |
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Are group of jagged snow capped peaks that run through the western part of northern america |
Rocky mountain |
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Ai autralian most substantial mountain and the third longest base range in the world |
Great dividing range |
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He proposed the seafloor spreading |
Harry hess |
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The divergent also called |
Constructive |
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The covergent also called |
Destructive |
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The transform also called |
Conservative |
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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 |
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Are formed by tge chemical and mechanical action of the wind |
Aeolian |
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Are mounds ir small hills made up of sand |
Dunes |
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Is a predominatly silt size sediment by accumulation of windblow dust |
Loess |
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Are also called rock pedestal, is naturally occuring when rock that resembles the shape of a mushroom |
Mushroom rock |
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Are created by exlusively erosional and weathering activieties |
Erosional landforms |
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Also called table mountain, are elevated areas land wirh a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs |
Mesas |
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This tyoe is almost simioar to mesas formed to semi arid desert condition |
Buttes |
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Sometimes called gorge is a deep ravine between cliffs that is often carved from the landscape by a river, wind or glacier |
Canyons |
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Are those higher than the rest of their surrounding |
Mountain landform |
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Are elevated portion of land that are formed by geolic activies such as faulting |
Hills |
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Are low lying areas of a land situated between hills or mountain |
Valleys |
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Are results of the actions of the glaciers |
Glacial landform |
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Are landform that are controlled by geological process that form them and continually act on them after their fomation |
Volacano |
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Are those that underwent sedimentation, erosion or deposition on a river bed |
Fluvial landform |
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Is typically a low lying triangular areas located at the mouth of the rivers |
Delta |
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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 |
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Is a bend in a sinous watercourse of a river |
Meander |
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Are high rocky coasts that plunge down to the edge of the sea. |
Sea cliff |
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Are flat and broad land area that have no great changes in elevation when measured with references to thr mean sea level |
Plains |
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Also known as table lands or flat topped mountain, are portions of land elevated thousands of feet above their surroundings. |
Plateaus |