| A | B |
|---|
| Continental Shield | Basic continent bedrock |
| Mountains | Raised peak 600 feet higher than surroundings |
| Plateaus | Broad flat raised areas |
| Plains | Lowland low relief areas |
| Folded Mountains | Mountains formed from cont. collisions |
| Folded Mountains | Most common mountains |
| Folded Mountains | the Appalachins are these |
| Fault block Mountains | Earthquake produced mountains |
| Grand Tetons | Earthquake produced mountains |
| Crust | Outer solid shell of the Earth |
| Craton | Another term for Shields |
| Weathering | Deformation process that destroys landforms |
| Erosion | Deformation process that destroys landforms |
| Pacific Plate | Only large plate without a continent |
| North American Plate | Plate that carries Ohio |
| Eurasian Plate | Second largest plate |
| Plate Tectonics | Process by which plates move |
| Active Plate Margin | areas west of the Rockies! |
| Passive Plate Margin | areas east of the Rockies! |
| Atlantic coastal plain | flattest part of the US |
| Atlantic coastal plain | doesn't have craton underneath! |
| Atlantic coastal plain | Goes from Texas to Virginia |
| Atlantic coastal plain | broken off of Africa! |
| Appalachian Highlands | Mountain chain from GA to MAINE |
| Appalachian Highlands | folded Mountain system |
| Appalachian Highlands | very weathered, old mountains |
| Appalachian Highlands | has plateaus on either side |
| Allegeney Plateau | starts in Eastern Bremen |
| Interior Plain | biggest province |
| Interior Plain | starts in Western Bremen! |
| Interior Plain | Goes from Ohio to the Rockies |
| Interior Plain | sometimes called prarrie! |
| Ozark Uplands | mountains where they shouldn't be |
| Ozark Uplands | Arkansas, Missiori area |
| Ouitcha Ozark Uplands | Most ancient mountains |
| Laurentian Uplands | Where the craton is exposed |
| laurentian Uplands | Found exposed in Minnesota |
| Interior Plain | covered in sedimentary rock! |
| Laurentian Upland | made up of Igneous and metamorphic rock |
| Rocky Mountains | America's youngest mountains |
| Rocky Mountains | still growing mountains |
| Rocky Mountains | extend from Canada to Central Am |
| Rocky Mountains | folded and fault block mountains |
| Pacific Coastal Mountains | folded mountains on west coast |
| Cascade Mountain Range | Volcanoes! |
| Sierra Nevada's | Fault Block mountains |
| Grand Tetons | Fault Block Mountains |
| Colorado Plateau | An erosional plateau |
| Colorado plateau | Has erosional and volcanic features |
| Colorado Plateau | extends across 4 states! |
| Basin and Range | Worlds weirdest landforms |
| Basin and Range | made by decending ocean plate |
| Basin and Range | most of our deserts are here |
| Columbia Plateau | Volcanic plateau |
| Columbia Plateau | covers most of Oregon and Washington state |
| Pacific Mountain range | is actually accretion terrane |
| Pacific Mountain Range | has all types of common mountains |
