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100
Type of landform with higher elevation; can be volcanic, folded or fault-block.
What are mountains?
100
A level, mostly flat land often used for farming.
What is a plain?
100
A single river can exhibit the characteristics of all the river stages. True or false?
What is true?
100
The river stage that causes the most erosion.
What is a young river?
100
This is what we call lines on a topo map.
What is contour lines?
200
Landform that is uplifted and often flat-topped.
What is a plateau?
200
Deep valley with steep sides, often has a river flowing in the valley.
What is a canyon?
200
A river with many meanders and some oxbow lakes.
What is an old river?
200
The river load that is being carried along by the river and makes it look murky or muddy.
What is the suspended load?
200
The lines which are darker are called this.
What is index contour?
300
Type of mountain formed by converging plates or hot spots.
What is volcanic?
300
A low area between mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
300
A river with rapids, waterfalls, steep gradient.
What is a youthful/young river?
300
The river load that is still on the bottom but is pushed along by the river's force.
What is bed load?
300
Lines far apart indicate this.
What is mostly flat land?
400
Type of mountain formed by converging plates or stress that can cause rock layers to bend into high and low layers.
What is folded mountains?
400
A wetland forest.
What is a swamp?
400
A river with developing flood plains, some meanders, U-shaped valley.
What is a mature river?
400
The river load that is in solution in river and will not be deposited.
What is the dissolved load?
400
Lines that are closely spaced indicate this.
What is a steep incline?
500
Type of mountain formed when tension or stress causes large pieces of the Earth's crust to drop or rise relative to each other.
What is fault-block mountains?
500
A body of water partially surrounded by land.
What is a bay?
500
A river that has become faster and more erosive due to increase in the gradient.
What is a rejuvenated river?
500
The reason the inside of a meander may have a gravel bar and the outside may have a bluff.
What is the river is slower on the inside and faster on the outside?
500
The "V" of a valley or stream points this way on the map.
What is uphill?
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