Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Miscellaneous
Landforms in Real Life
100
A system of rivers and streams that drains an area like the Colorado Plateau.
What is a drainage basin?
100
A shape or feature of the earth's surface, like a delta or canyon.
What is a landform?
100
a curve or loop in a channel.
What is a meander?
100
the limit or border of an area or region.
What is a boundary?
100
A famous canyon in Arizona.
What is the Grand Canyon?
200
a large nearly level area that has been lifted above the surrounding area.
What is a plateau?
200
a low area in which sediments are often deposited.
What is a basin?
200
something built by people, like a building.
What is a structure?
200
A fast-flowing river that runs through Colorado, Utah, and Arizona.
What is the Colorado River?
300
A v-shaped valley eroded by a river or stream.
What is a valley?
300
the course or path the water takes in a stream or river.
What is a channel?
300
a representation of an object or process.
What is a model?
300
a person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
300
A flat surface located throughout Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.
What is the Colorado Plateau?
400
a fan-shaped (triangular) deposit of earth materials at a mouth of a stream.
What is a delta?
400
are eroded earth materials that have been deposited.
What are sediments?
400
a drawing of an area, usually as though you were looking straight down on it.
What is a map?
400
a color, shape, or texture used to represent something else on a map, such as a building, road, or landform.
What is a symbol?
400
The process by which the Grand Canyon was formed.
What is erosion?
500
the process that wears away earth materials by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion?
500
the process by which eroded earth materials settle out in another place.
What is deposition?
500
a network of vertical and horizontal lines that form squares.
What is a grid?
500
an explanation of symbols used on a map.
What is a key?
500
The process by which a delta is formed.
What is deposition?
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