Maps
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Vocab 2
Landforms
100
A network of vertical and horizontal lines.
What is grid.
100
A surveyor's mark at known position and elevation.
What is bench mark.
100
An embrakment along a stream that protects from a flood.
What is levee.
100
Height above sea level.
What is elevation.
100
A fan shaped deposit of earth material at the mouth.
What is delta.
200
A map that uses contour lines to show shape and elevation.
What is topographic map.
200
The bottom of a mountain.
What is base.
200
A very heavy flow of water, greater than normal.
What is flood.
200
A stream that only flows a certain ammount of time a year.
What is intermittit stream.
200
A curve or loop in a river.
What is meander.
300
Color or picture to represent something else.
What is symbol.
300
The angle or slant of a stream table.
What is slope.
300
Wearing away of earth material by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion.
300
A c-shapes valley eroded by a river.
What is canyon.
300
A shape of the land.
What is landform.
400
An explanation of symbols used on a map.
What is key.
400
A line seperating the land and the ocean.
What is sea level.
400
Where a stream enters a body of water.
What is mouth.
400
A stream that flows all year.
What is perennial stream.
400
A side veiw or croos section of a landform.
What is profile.
500
A line that connects points of the same elevation.
What is contour lines.
500
The course a stream flows.
What is chennel.
500
A flat surface drawing.
What is map.
500
The process where eroded earth materials settle out.
What is deposition.
500
Highest point of a mountain.
What is peek.
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