Vocabulary
Maps and Models
Stream Tables
Go With the Flow
Random
100
Mountain, valley, rolling hill, and water are all types of these.
What are landforms?
100
We created maps of these in our first investigations.
What is a school yard model?
100
A "V" shaped valley eroded by a river or a stream.
What is a canyon?
100
This is a very heavy flow of water which is greater than the normal flow of water and goes over the stream's normal channel.
What is a flood?
100
Our earth material is made up of these two things.
What are dirt and clay?
200
A representation of an object or a process.
What is model?
200
A key, symbols, labels, scale, are all things you find on a ________.
What is a map?
200
The vial shake test showed us three layers which are _______, __________, and __________.
What are clay, water, and sand.
200
With double slope the water moves _______ than standard slope and no slope.
What is faster?
200
This is about 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and 1.6 miles deep.
What is the Grand Canyon?
300
Wears away earth material by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion?
300
These are drawings of all parts of the Earth's surface.
What is a map?
300
These form at the bottom of our stream tables which represents the mouth of a stream.
What is a delta?
300
Water flowing through channels with steep slopes cause more of what?
What is erosion?
300
Water flowing in the Colorado River eroded this canyon.
What is the Grand Canyon?
400
The process by which eroded earth materials settle in another place.
What is deposition?
400
Maps and models represent features of the Earth at a ________ __________ (2 words).
What is a manageable scale?
400
A delta and a valley are examples of these.
What are landforms?
400
The more water flowing through the stream table such as a flood causes ______________?
What is more erosion?
400
A delta is created by _______.
What is deposition
500
A fan shaped landform deposited at the end of a steep canyon where the slope becomes flatter.
What is an alluvial fan?
500
This is a person who makes maps.
Who is a cartographer?
500
A canyon is formed by __________
What is Erosion
500
The canyons were deeper, the deltas were larger and longer, and only one river formed when we changed this.
What is doubling the slope?
500
These materials are used in our stream table set up (Must name at least 7 things).
What is a wood angle, ruler, water souce, earth material, tray, duck tape, water, basin, newspaper, and dye (food coloring)?
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