Types of Landforms
Map Vocabulary
Rivers and Stream Tables
Reading Maps
Other
100
This landform is fan-shaped and found at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
This is the name for a person who makes maps.
What is cartographer?
100
The Colorado River eroded earth materials away from this landform.
What is the Colorado Plateau?
100
This person measures and marks the distance, elevation and boundaries of land areas.
What is a surveyor?
100
These are a type of landform found in a river, when water travels over boulders and gains speed.
What are rapids?
200
This landform is a curve or loop in a river.
What is a meander?
200
This word means that small distances on a map are equal to large distances in the real world
What is scale?
200
Rivers can create these two landforms.
What are canyons and deltas?
200
This type of map gives you a side view of a landform, such as a mountain.
What is a profile?
200
A cartographer uses this to make a topographic map.
What is an aerial photograph?
300
This landform is a V-shaped valley eroded by a river.
What is a canyon?
300
The study of physical features of the earth and it's atmosphere.
What is geography?
300
This type of earth material is deposited last.
What is clay?
300
The average height of sea level.
What is zero elevation?
300
This type of lake only contains water during the rainy season and can usually be found in Death Valley.
What is an intermittent lake?
400
This landform gets covered by water from a stream or river during a flood.
What are floodplains?
400
Used to represent real objects, these might use color, lines or shapes.
What are symbols?
400
A delta, found at the mouth of a river, is created by this.
What is deposition?
400
The vertical distance about sea level
What is elevation?
500
This landform is fan-shaped, but found on dry land in such places as Death Valley.
What is an alluvial fan?
500
This is found on a map and helps us to understand what a specific symbol stands for.
What is a legend?
500
This can be natural or manmade and is found along the embankments on a stream.
What are levees?
500
These show the shape and elevation of land on a topographic map.
What are contour lines?
500
The three ways people can control the flow of water.
What are levees, dams, and channels?
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