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Science chapter 7

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Isostasy   A term geologists use to describe the balance of the weights of rock, water, and ice, and the upward force of the mantle  
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Elevation   The height of a mountain peak above the mean sea level  
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Relief   A region having mountains and valleys is an example with a great relief  
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Mid– Atlantic Ridge   Home of the longest and most extensive mountain system on the earth  
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Buttes   An erosion all remnant of a plateau  
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Fins   Landforms that looks like fish fins  
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Monadnock   Formed by rising magma and erosion  
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Volcanoes   Depositional mountain with vent for magma to escape  
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Orogeny   The geological history of the origin of mountains through tectonic processes  
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Mountains and hills   The difference between them is height and local/ historical traditions  
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Mesa   Flat-topped hill with steep sides  
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Elevation vs. actual height   Elevation is measurement of mountain from MSL. Actual height is measurement from base of mountain to summit  
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Countour lines   When they are close together, they show steep incline. Further apart indicates gradual incline/slope  
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Noah's Flood   Many of the erosional remnants of plateaus,may have been created when water drained off the land and eroded away the softer materials that had not yet hardened into rock  
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Monocline   Convergent land form. Strata broke along a fault line and fell down forming a step  
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Grabens   Divergent land form. Found in the center of a rift where rocks cracked and dropped downward  
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Basin   Subsidence landform. Formed when magma chamber emptied and rock strata sagged into a bowl-like structure  
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