Rivers
Rivers
Bird's-Eye View
Earth's Shapes
Stream Table
100
The bottom of a river
What is a riverbed?
100
Fast moving water in a river that flows over rocks and other obstructions
What are rapids?
100
A large mass or body of moving ice
What is a glacier?
100
Molten rock
What is magma?
100
Eroded earth materials that have been deposited
What is sediment?
200
The edges of a channel
What are the banks?
200
The system of rivers, streams, and lakes that drain a region
What is a drainage net?
200
Map maker
What is a cartographer?
200
The side view or cross-section of a landform such as a mountain.
What is the profile?
200
A curve or loop in a channel
What is meander?
300
The course a stream follows and is the deepest part of a river
What is a channel?
300
An embankment or mound along a river's edge
What is a levee?
300
A narrow area of high land between two valleys
What is a ridge?
300
Movement in the earth's plates slide past each other in this type of earthquake
What is tectonic?
300
A very heavy flow of water, which is greater than the normal flow and goes over the stream's normal channel
What is flood?
400
A fast-flowing river sometimes cuts these into the landscape
What are a gorge or a canyon?
400
The land in central United States between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains
What is the Mississippi drainage basin?
400
Measures and marks the distance, elevation, position, and boundaries of land areas
What is a surveyor?
400
When plates push upward and create great folds in the earth's surface
What is uplift?
400
A fan shaped (triangular) deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream
What is delta?
500
This is where some rivers flow into the sea in a single broad channel
What is an estuary?
500
Monitor changes, predict floods, and build ways to prevent floods
What is the kind of work that engineers do along rivers?
500
The earth's surface taken from an airplane or spacecraft flying above the earth
What is an aerial photograph?
500
Plates pull apart in this type of earthquake
What is rift?
500
The process by which eroded earth materials settle out in another place
What is deposition?
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