The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator
What is latitude
100
an overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land.
What is flood
100
a river follow a winding course.
What is meander
100
a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate.
What is a sluice gate
100
name a real world dam
What is hoover dam, three gorges, aswan, kinzua, ect
200
a circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth's surface and the terrestrial poles.
What is meridian
200
a landform that forms at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir.
What is delta
200
gabion baskets
What is a gabion is a cage, cylinder, or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, and military applications.
200
a watertight enclosure pumped dry to permit construction work below the waterline, as when building bridges or repairing a ship.
What is coffer dam
200
formula for discharge
What is Q = AV. Q represents stream discharge, A represents cross-sectional area and V represents velocity. The stream discharge will have volume/time as unit.
300
an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°
What is equator
300
Coastal flooding occurs when normally dry, low-lying land is flooded by sea water. The extent of coastal flooding is a function of the elevation inland flood waters penetrate which is controlled by the topography of the coastal land exposed to flooding.
What is coastal flooding
300
a fan-shaped mass of alluvium deposited as the flow of a river decreases in velocity
What is alluvial fan
300
A stream consisting of multiple small, shallow channels that divide and recombine numerous times forming a pattern resembling the strands of a braid. Braided streams form where the sediment load is so heavy that some of the sediments are deposited as shifting islands or bars between the channels.
What is braided stream
300
how high do altitude degrees go?
What is 180
400
A point on the earth's surface expressed by a coordinate system such as latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location
400
Coastal flooding occurs when normally dry, low-lying land is flooded by sea water. The extent of coastal flooding is a function of the elevation inland flood waters penetrate which is controlled by the topography of the coastal land exposed to flooding.
What is coastal flooding
400
a U-shaped bend in the course of a river.
What is oxbow
400
what are two major functions of dams
What is preventing flooding, generating power, recreational waters, reserve drinking water, ect.
400
different elevations represented on a topographic map, how?
What is enclosed shapes representing elevation
500
The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.
What is topograghy
500
A cartographer is a person who creates maps, whether they're of the world, the local bus routes, or buried pirate treasure.
What is cartographer
500
an inclined part of a road or railway; a slope.
What is gradient
500
name a type of dam
What is coffer dam, embankment dam, gravity dam, ect
500
a spot in topographic measurement where the latitude and longitude is recorded on the map