Maps
Vocabulary-1
Vocabulary-2
Vocabulary-3
Landforms
100
a network of vertical and horizontal lines
What is grid
100
a representation of an object or process
What is model
100
highest point of a mountain
What is peak
100
where a stream enters another body of water
What is mouth
100
a shape of the land
What is landform
200
a flat surface drawing
What is map
200
wearing away of earth material by water, wind, ice
What is erosion
200
the bottom of a mountain
What is base
200
a v-shaped valley eroded by a river
What is canyon
200
a fan-shaped deposit of earth material at the mouth
What is a delta
300
an explanation of symbols used on a map
What is key
300
the process where eroded earth materials settle out
What is deposition
300
height above sea level
What is elevation
300
the angle or slant of a stream channel
What is slope
300
a curve or loop in a river
What is a meander
400
a line that connects points of the same elevation
What is contour line
400
a side view or a cross section of a landform
What is profile
400
color or picture used to represent something else
What is symbol
400
a very heavy flow of water, greater than normal
What is flood
400
an embankment along a stream that protects from a flood
What is levee
500
a map that uses contour lines to show shape and elevation
What is topographic map
500
a stream that flows only a certain time of the year
What is intermittent stream
500
surveyor's mark at a known position and elevation
What is bench mark
500
a stream that flows all year
What is perennial stream
500
the course a stream flows
What is a channel
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