Vocabulary
Landforms
Investigations
Compare and Contrast
Maps
100
A person who makes maps
Who is a cartographer?
100
A V-shaped valley eroded by a river
What is a canyon?
100
Lighter earth materials usually take longer than heavier earth materials to settle during this process...
What is deposition?
100
The difference between a map and a model...
What is a map uses a key, whereas models use structures or real life boundaries to represent objects?
100
Shows symbols representing different objects on a map
What is the key?
200
The process of wearing away the earth by water, wind, or ice
What is erosion?
200
A high, uplifted area with steep slopes
What is a mountain?
200
Represented by contour lines on a topographic map...
What is the height of a mountain?
200
Similarity between a map and a model?
What is both show a representation of an area or object?
200
Lines that show the elevation on a topographic map...
What are contour lines?
300
A representation of an object or process
What is a model?
300
A nearly level area that has been uplifted
What is a plateau?
300
Made by deposition....
What is a delta?
300
How an aerial photograph and topographic map are alike...
What is they both provide a bird's eye view?
300
When contour lines are close together, this shows...
What is that the slope of the mountain is steep?
400
a shape or feature of the earth’s surface, such as a delta, canyon, or glacier
What is a landform?
400
The highest point on a mountain
What is a peak?
400
In a stream table experiment, one way to increase erosion...
What is increase the amount of water?
400
How an aerial photograph and topographic map are different...
What is an aerial photograph is a picture taken with a camera, and a topographic map is created by surveyors and cartographers?
400
Information provided by a profile map?
What are the height, slope, and shape of mountains?
500
the land that gets covered by water from a stream or river during a flood
What is a flood plain?
500
A fan-shaped deposit of earth material at the mouth of a stream is called
What is a delta?
500
One of these is not a model: A toy dump truck A doll house A diagram of a dump truck
What is a diagram of a dump truck?
500
Difference between a plateau and mountain...
What is the top of a mountain forms a peak, whereas a plateau is flat at the top?
500
A reason why a mountain climber may use a topographic map...
What is to find out how steepness of the mountain's slope?
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