vertical rock point {aiguille}.
mountain {alp}|.
plant-less eroded mesas or hills {badlands}|.
cliff top {bluff}|.
small mesa {butte}|.
crest or ridge {chine}.
pass or gap {col}.
A mountain chain {Cordilleran belt} goes from Atlas Mountains, to Alps, to Himalayas, to Pacific-Ocean volcanic islands, to north China, to east Siberia, to west North-America coast, and then to west South-America coast.
rocky promontory {crag}|.
hill top {crest, hill}|.
above-plain inclined rock strata {cuesta}.
watershed {divide}|.
hill {eminence}|.
mesa side {escarpment}|.
Two large watersheds have boundary {great divide}.
small hill {hillock}|.
knoll or mound {hummock}|.
small hill {knoll}|.
mountain {massif}|.
tableland tops {mesa}| {upland}.
river cliffs {palisade, cliff}|.
Rolling plains {piedmont}| form by running water, glacial erosion, or wind sand-dune formation.
high flatland {plateau, land}|.
sea or lake highland projection {promontory}|.
cliff {scarp}.
un-eroded mountain range {sierra}.
Plains cut by streams make mesa, butte, canyon, and escarpment {tableland}|.
Trees do not grow above a mountain line {timberline}| {timber line}.
Hilltops {tor} can have rocks or be bare rock.
5-Earth Science-Land-Land Forms
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